Syllable Counter
Type any word and see its syllables. Great for phonics and clap-it-out practice.
🐢 About the Syllable Counter
The Syllable Counter takes any word and shows how to break it into syllables — elephant becomes el · e · phant, three syllables. The breakdown is the same one kids see in phonics workbooks and reading curricula, drawn from the same K-8 corpus we use for definitions. For words outside the curated set, the counter falls back to dictionary-based syllabification.
Used for clap-it-out phonics work (clap once per syllable), for haiku writing where syllable counts matter (5-7-5), for vocabulary lessons where understanding word structure helps decode unfamiliar words, and for spelling units where students learn to break long words into manageable chunks.
Each syllable result also shows the part of speech and a one-sentence definition so the syllable count comes with context, not in isolation. Type a word, see the syllables, and follow the link to the full definition page if you want to learn more. Direct link: ?word=elephant.