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Count the syllables in any English word, with a phonetically-accurate break using our IPA-indexed lexicon. Falls back to a vowel-group heuristic for rare words.
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Words in the phonetic index use their IPA transcription — those counts match a trained lexicographer. Words outside it fall back to a vowel-group heuristic that is right for ~95% of English words but can mis-count unusual spellings.