syllable count
Beats per word
Syllable count is the number of syllables in a word, line, or passage.
Poetry often depends on syllable count—haiku requires seventeen syllables across three lines, sonnets use ten syllables per line.
What's the syllable count on that word?
Writers and editors track syllable counts for readability scores and metrical consistency.
- moraProsodic duration unit
- meterDevice that measures usage
- verseMetered poetic passage
- syllabificationDivision into spoken units
- phonemeMinimal distinctive sound unit
scansion · iamb · onset · monosyllable · prosody · coda · long vowel · short vowel · rhythm · trochee · schwa · nucleus · haiku · elision · dactyl · foot · anapest · spondee
- poetry termspoetry, rhyme, verse, rhythm, meter
- text analyticsreading level, grade level, sentence length, reading time, text length
- word featuresprefixes, suffixes, root words, spelling patterns, word roots
- word propertiesprefix, suffix, root, vowel, consonant
- corpus linguisticscorpus, word counts, word frequency, concordance, n-grams
- haiku5-7-5, hokku, senryu, syllables, brevity