Syllable Counter
Count the syllables in an English word or a short phrase, using British and American pronunciations from the Phonetizer dictionary.
How syllable counts work here
A syllable count is the number of vowel nuclei in the stored dictionary pronunciation — not a guess from the spelling, and not a phonological syllabification with boundary marks.
Counts are shown per accent because British and American pronunciations can differ. Each number belongs to that accent’s stored IPA.
Counts come from dictionary data. A small share of entries is imperfect, and uncertain pronunciations are deliberately not numbered.
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