noun🔗ShareThe next-to-last syllable of a word."The penult of the word "beautiful" is the syllable "au." "languagelinguisticsphoneticsgrammarwordChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareThe next to the last in a series.""In a five-question quiz, I struggled most with the penult; the last question was actually easier." "partlanguagewritinglinguisticsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading