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Syllable Counter
Count the syllables in any word or line — for haiku, lyrics, metre, and readability.
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English spelling does not always match how a word is said, so counts for words like "fire" or "poem" are genuinely debatable. Read the line aloud if it matters.
Counts each line separately, so you can see the shape of a poem rather than one total.
What people use it for
- Writing haiku, tanka and other syllable-counted forms
- Fitting lyrics to a melody
- Checking metre in poetry
- Keeping a headline or tagline to a rhythm
Questions
By rule: vowel groups, adjusted for silent e, common endings like -le and -ed, and a list of words English spells unhelpfully. It is right the great majority of the time in English.
Yes. English pronunciation does not follow its spelling reliably, and words like "fire" or "poem" are genuinely counted differently by different people. For anything that matters, read the line aloud.
Yes — switch on haiku mode and it marks each line against 5-7-5 and tells you which one is off.
The rules are English. Other languages will give unreliable counts.
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