How Many Syllables in Tenement?

The word Tenement has 3 syllables: ten-e-ment.
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Definition of Tenement

A multi-unit apartment building, usually in a poor or crowded part of a city.

How should Tenement divide into syllables

The word 'tenement' has three syllables. The first syllable has a short 'e' sound, the second syllable has a long 'e' sound, and the third syllable has a short 'e' sound. There are two vowels (e's) and four consonants (t, n, m, and t) in this word.

Part of Speech - Tenement

My grandma used to live in a tenement building in New York City.

Sentences with Tenement

• The tenement building was very old and run-down.
• Many immigrants lived in tenement buildings when they first came to America.
• The city government passed a law to improve the living conditions in tenement buildings.
• The landlord was fined for not maintaining the tenement building properly.
• The tenement building was demolished to make way for a new development.
• My great-grandparents lived in a tenement building when they first arrived in the United States.
• The tenement building was overcrowded and had a lot of health code violations.
• The new tenement building was built with modern amenities and affordable rent.
• The tenants in the tenement building complained about the lack of heat and hot water.
• The tenement building was a symbol of poverty and urban blight.

Quotes with Tenement

• I was born in a tenement house in Elizabeth, New Jersey... it was not a ghetto; it was not a slum. It was a typical Jewish-American community.
• The tenement is the laboratory of social progress.
• There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
• I was born in the slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.
• We were not a well-to-do family, but we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and my parents always supported my dreams.
• The tenement is a place of beginning.
• The tenement house stands in the midst of vice and crime, and the slum is the measure of the city's failure.
• The tenement is the symbol of poverty in the city.
• The tenement house is a disgrace to civilization.
• The tenement is the breeding ground of disease and death.

Number of characters in Tenement

8 ( t, e, n, e, m, e, n, t )

Unique letters in Tenement

4 ( t, e, n, m )

Tenement Backwards

tnemenet

How to Pronounce Tenement

IPA (International): ˈtenʌmʌnt

ARA (American): ˈtɛnʌmʌnt

EPA (English): ˈtenʌmʌnt

TEH-NAH-MAH-NT