Author:
Laura McKinney
Date Of Creation:
5 August 2021
Update Date:
1 May 2024
Content
The diphthong It is the combination of two different vowels that occur in a contiguous word and in the same syllable. For example: aceiyou, guardar.
- See also: Diphthong, tripthong and hiatus
Types of diphthongs
- Growing diphthongs (or increasing words). They occur when a weak or closed vowel (u, i) is found before the strong or open vowel (a, e, o). For example: comedy (co - me - dia).
- Decreasing diphthongs (or decreasing words). They occur when the strong vowel (a, e, o) is before the weak vowel (i, u). For example: Europe (Eu - clothing).
- Homogeneous diphthongs (or homogeneous words). They occur when there are two contiguous weak vowels (i, u). For example: to distribute (dis - tri - buir).
- See also: Diphthong
Examples of increasing words
| open (a –bier - to) | irguió (go - guio) |
| acquired (ad - qui - rio) | irrupió (i - rrum- pio) |
| warned (ad - vir - tio) | clean (lim - pio) |
| water (a - gua) | assassination (mag - ni - ci - dio) |
| Germany, Germania) | matricide (ma - tri - ci - dio) |
| ambitious (am - bi - cio - so) | millennium (mi - le - nio) |
| environment (am-bien-te) | mission (my - sion) |
| amnesia (am - ne - sia) | moved (mo - vio) |
| anterior (an - te - rior) | grindstone (mEU - the) |
| old (an - ti - guo) | bat (mur - cie - the - go) |
| added (a - ña - dio) | obstruction (obs - truc - cion) |
| appeared (a - pa - re - cio) | happened (o - cu - rrio) |
| arrió (a - rrio) | option (op - cion) |
| auspició (aus - pi - cio) | ovation (o - va - cion) |
| good Bien) | parliamentary (par - la - men - ta - rio) |
| biennial (bie –Nal) | I think (pien - so) |
| song (can - cion) | Easter (pas - cua) |
| casorio (ca - so - rio) | skin (piel) |
| coloration (co - lo - ra - cion) | presentation (pre - sen - ta - cion) |
| combatió (com - ba - tio) | turned on (pren - dio) |
| comedy (co - me - dia) | presenció (pre - sen - cio) |
| ate (co - mio) | promised (pro - me - tio) |
| shared (com - par - tio) | door (pEUr - ta) |
| confused (with - fun - dio) | toured (re - co - rrio) |
| contemplation (con - tem - pla - cion) | reflected (re - flex - cio - no) |
| became (con - vir - tio) | repeated (re - pi - tio) |
| ran (cor - rrio) | residue (re - si - duo) |
| fee (cuo - ta) | responded (answer - pon - dio) |
| wasted (des - per - di - cio) | responsory (res - pon - so - rio) |
| contempt (des - pre - cio) | risk (ries - go) |
| Diego (Die - go) | laughed (rio) |
| direction (di - rec - cion) | enraged (en - fu - re - cio) |
| hurt (do - lio) | roared (ru - gio) |
| dromedary (dro - me - da - rio) | shook (sa - cu - dio) |
| efficiencyiente (e - fi - hundred - te) | came out (sa - lio) |
| instantiation (e - jem - pli - fi - ca - cion) | salvacion (sal - va - cion) |
| emancipation (e - man - ci - pa - cion) | segregation (se - gre - ga - cion) |
| cooled (en - frio) | silence (si - len - cio) |
| spy (es - pio) | felt (without - tio) |
| evaluation (e - va - lua - cion) | served (sir - vio) |
| existed (ex - sis - tio) | smiled (are - rio) |
| expió (ex - pio) | rose (su - bio) |
| femicide (faith - mi - ci - dio) | tenió (ten - dio) |
| fire (fEU - go) | you haveie - nes) |
| fire (in - cen - dio) | land (tie - rra) |
| cartoon (his - to - rie - ta) | transmission (trans - mi - sion) |
| orphan (hEUr - fa - no) | wake (go - lo - rio) |
| infanticide (in - fan - ti - ci - dio) | saw (vio) |
| exchanged (in - ter - cam - bio) | lived (saw - saw) |
| winter (in –vier - no) | returned (vol - vio) |
More examples in:
- Diphthong and hiatus
- Esdrújulas with hiatus and diphthong
- Hiatuses and diphthongs in Spanish
