What is a syllable?
A syllable is the sound of a vowel (a, e, i, o, u)
that's created when pronouncing a word.
The number of times that you hear the sound of a vowel (a, e, i, o, u)
in a word is equal to the number of syllables the word has.
Click here to learn the rules for counting syllables.
- cake - has 1 syllable
- eat - has 1 syllable
- cheese - has 1 syllable
- eating - has 2 syllables (eat - ing)
- chicken - has 2 syllables (chick - en)
- worrying - has 3 syllables (wor - ry - ing)