Question

what is stress syllables? mark the stress syllables in the following:
balcony, happy, laboratory, dissatisfy, between

Answer 1

Word stress is the idea that in a word with more than one syllable, one (or more than one) syllable will be stressed or accented. And the rest will be unstressed, or, unaccented. Notice that I'm using the words 'stress' and 'accent' interchangeably. So, in English, not all syllables are created equal.