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A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds.

A syllable is typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most often a vowel) with optional initial and final margins (typically, consonants).

For example, the word water is composed of two syllables: wa and ter.

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Rules applied to the separation of syllables

As a native speaker it's natural for me to know how a word is separated in its constituent syllables. But I want to know if there are any established rules to know how a word is separated into its syllables. For example: camión = ca-mión sol = sol…
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Is there always a syllable break with the letters "ié" in any word?

When working with diptongos, we were told that two strong vowels or a strong with an accented weak vowel were the only ways we separated the word into syllables. For example, the word "cuál" is not separated because the weak "u" and the accented "a"…
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