unsyllabic
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(a) not forming a syllable or the nucleus of a syllable; consisting of a consonant sound accompanied in the same syllable by a vowel sound or consisting of a vowel sound dominated by other vowel sounds in a syllable (as the second vowel in a falling diphthong)
- the nonsyllabic "n" in "botany" when it is pronounced "botny"
- the nonsyllabic "i" in "oi"