Heard spelling

periunth

Spelled perianth. an unstressed vowel

Which vowel is in the last syllable of perianth?

An a. It is the a of anthos, flower, and it is unstressed, so it gives almost nothing away in speech.

Periunth writes it as u, the commonest English spelling for a vowel that has collapsed to nothing in particular. The letter is only recoverable from the root.

Say

PERR-ee-anth

Letters

P-E-R-I-A-N-T-H