How Many Syllables in Delayed?

The word Delayed has 2 syllables: de-layed.
Syllable division helps in understanding the word's structure, improving both pronunciation and spelling.
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Definition of Delayed

To make something happen at a later time than planned or expected.

How should Delayed divide into syllables

The first syllable 'de' has a short 'e' vowel sound and the second syllable 'layed' has a long 'a' vowel sound. The consonants in this word are 'd', 'l', and 'y'.

Part of Speech - Delayed

The flight was delayed due to bad weather.

Sentences with Delayed

• The train was delayed by an hour.
• I delayed my homework until the night before it was due.
• The construction work delayed the traffic for hours.
• He delayed his decision until he had all the information.
• The teacher delayed the test until next week.
• The company delayed the launch of their new product.
• The weather delay caused the game to be rescheduled.
• The delay in getting the results was frustrating.
• She delayed her retirement until she had saved enough money.
• The delay in the shipment caused a lot of problems for the company.

Quotes with Delayed

• Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of thirty. - Robert Frost
• The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest. - Gustave Flaubert
• I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. - Thomas Jefferson
• The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. - Leo Tolstoy
• Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. - Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. - William Shakespeare
• Lost time is never found again. - Benjamin Franklin
• Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. - William Penn
• Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. - Theophrastus
• Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. - Carl Sandburg
• Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. - Marthe Troly-Curtin
• The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. - C. S. Lewis
• Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.' - Lao Tzu
• Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician. - Lucille S. Harper
• Time is a game played beautifully by children. - Heraclitus
• Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. - Ray Cummings
• Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams
• Time is what we make of it, always has been, always will be. - Anonymous
• Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. - Faith Baldwin
• Time is the longest distance between two places. - Tennessee Williams

Number of characters in Delayed

7 ( d, e, l, a, y, e, d )

Unique letters in Delayed

5 ( d, e, l, a, y )

Delayed Backwards

deyaled

How to Pronounce Delayed

IPA (International): dɪˈleɪd

ARA (American): dɪˈled

EPA (English): dɪˈleɪd

DIH-LEY-D