Five Syllable Words

Five syllable words such as u-ni-ver-si-ty and re-frig-er-a-tor are long enough that most readers sound them out in parts. Many are built by adding prefixes and suffixes to shorter root words.

Most common five syllable words

  • university
  • international
  • association
  • individual
  • immediately
  • particularly
  • opportunity
  • administration
  • organization
  • associated
  • investigation
  • environmental
  • communication
  • approximately
  • unfortunately
  • opportunities
  • educational
  • possibility
  • representative
  • manufacturing
  • experiences
  • personality
  • significantly
  • anniversary
  • automatically
  • contemporary
  • necessarily
  • administrative
  • electricity
  • congratulations
  • organisation
  • universities
  • agricultural
  • representation
  • constitutional
  • participation
  • biological
  • discrimination
  • documentary
  • implementation
  • intellectual
  • collaboration
  • consideration
  • experimental
  • psychological
  • examination
  • considerable
  • popularity
  • regulatory
  • accidentally
  • imagination
  • interpretation
  • disability
  • evaluation
  • manufacturer
  • operational
  • incorporated
  • participating
  • uncomfortable
  • classification
  • metropolitan
  • parliamentary
  • unnecessary
  • appreciated
  • determination
  • liability
  • preliminary
  • productivity
  • investigated
  • appreciation
  • capabilities
  • editorial
  • possibilities
  • recommendation
  • anticipated
  • inevitable
  • investigating
  • unbelievable
  • administrator
  • capability
  • accommodation
  • independently
  • technological
  • temporarily
  • eliminated
  • orientation
  • sophisticated
  • experiencing
  • intermediate
  • mathematical
  • identifying
  • enthusiasm
  • flexibility
  • ideology
  • probability
  • civilization
  • creativity
  • participated
  • theoretical
  • considerably
  • institutional
  • inappropriate
  • initiated
  • capitalism
  • certification
  • characteristic
  • configuration
  • continuously
  • curiosity
  • superintendent
  • affiliated
  • architectural
  • documentation
  • philosophical
  • sensitivity
  • disabilities
  • elimination
  • inability
  • inequality
  • notification

Five syllable nouns

  • personalities
  • solidarity
  • qualification
  • investigator
  • justification
  • nationalism
  • vocabulary
  • similarities
  • continuity
  • modification
  • anticipation
  • authorization
  • evacuation
  • acceleration
  • affiliation
  • proliferation
  • authenticity
  • equilibrium
  • accumulation
  • patriotism
  • similarity
  • tuberculosis
  • humiliation
  • retaliation
  • accreditation
  • initiation
  • auditorium
  • liberalism
  • utilization
  • documentaries
  • instrumentation
  • cafeteria
  • feasibility
  • manifestation
  • repository
  • accelerator
  • conservatism
  • immortality
  • familiarity
  • appropriation
  • ambiguity
  • depreciation
  • modernization

Five syllable adjectives

  • enthusiastic
  • unprecedented
  • respiratory
  • imaginary
  • developmental
  • theological
  • understandable
  • occupational
  • radioactive
  • unavailable
  • hypothetical
  • economical
  • insignificant
  • simultaneous
  • introductory
  • inexperienced
  • unforgettable
  • imaginative
  • recognizable

Five syllable verbs

  • accompanying
  • evaluated
  • consolidated
  • originated
  • coordinated
  • eliminating
  • negotiated
  • negotiating
  • communicating
  • accelerated
  • accumulated
  • contaminated
  • evaluating
  • misunderstanding
  • incorporating
  • underestimate
  • exaggerated
  • differentiate
  • manipulated
  • coordinating
  • intimidating
  • communicated
  • experimenting
  • illuminated
  • facilitated
  • originating
  • accelerating
  • manipulating
  • intimidated
  • facilitating
  • collaborating
  • cooperating
  • anticipating
  • articulated
  • initiating
  • apologizing
  • collaborated

More five syllable words

  • subsidiary
  • coordinator
  • recreational
  • territorial
  • coordination
  • hospitality
  • inevitably
  • pharmaceutical
  • supernatural
  • credibility
  • unacceptable
  • cooperative
  • judiciary
  • geographical
  • manipulation
  • undergraduate
  • economically
  • assassination
  • bibliography
  • geological
  • intentionally
  • methodology
  • alternatively
  • predominantly
  • aboriginal
  • ecological
  • metabolism
  • negotiation
  • sociology
  • vegetarian
  • visibility
  • fundamentally
  • disciplinary
  • inspirational
  • specification
  • appropriately
  • analytical
  • inflammatory
  • nationality
  • voluntarily
  • consolidation
  • continuation
  • instability
  • observatory
  • unexpectedly
  • contamination
  • functionality
  • verification
  • constituency
  • investigative
  • terminology
  • unpredictable
  • irresponsible
  • proprietary
  • evacuated
  • optimization
  • anthropology
  • indefinitely
  • precipitation
  • legitimacy
  • universally
  • computational
  • generosity
  • unanimously
  • evangelical
  • physiology
  • refrigerator
  • regeneration
  • unidentified
  • interestingly
  • subsidiaries
  • archaeology
  • inauguration
  • libertarian
  • chemotherapy
  • connectivity
  • insecurity
  • interrogation
  • liabilities
  • managerial
  • multimedia
  • multinational
  • schizophrenia
  • ministerial
  • academia
  • clarification
  • neurological
  • overwhelmingly
  • semiconductor
  • unreliable
  • systematically
  • comparatively
  • pronunciation
  • ridiculously
  • antibiotic
  • astronomical
  • ceremonial
  • choreography
  • gravitational
  • hereditary
  • negativity
  • unconditional
  • volatility
  • contradictory
  • incompatible
  • motivational
  • biomedical
  • irresistible
  • globalization
  • humiliating
  • alcoholism
  • competitiveness
  • confederation
  • durability
  • secretariat
  • artificially
  • inadvertently
  • invariably
  • redevelopment
  • undocumented
  • viability
  • apocalyptic
  • illegitimate
  • miscellaneous
  • unbelievably
  • unconventional
  • anonymously
  • humiliated
  • obituary
  • authoritative
  • chronological
  • contemporaries
  • incorporation
  • legalization
  • anonymity
  • assassinated
  • intimidation
  • multicultural
  • obligatory
  • biographical
  • archaeologists
  • interpersonal
  • longitudinal
  • masculinity
  • notoriously
  • biochemistry
  • colonization
  • cosmopolitan
  • incarceration
  • legitimately
Syllable counts come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (American English). Words with more than one common pronunciation count are left out of these lists.