Counting Syllables

[Craig Newman]

Such cases are rare, certainly, but “queue” comes to mind. I am sure that a vowel parsing routine will be reasonably accurate, but not perfect, as per the previous example.

A quick search did not turn up any “list of all words and their syllable count”, but there still might be one. One site mentioned that algorithms were being used, but were “not perfect”.

Craig



> On Mar 21, 2022, at 3:21 PM, Rick Harrison via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> “miaou” has 4 consecutive vowels so I’m not surprised it has 2 syllables.  That may be a rule.
> 
> The average person uses about 20,000 words on a regular basis.
> 
> They know about 40,000 visually.
> 
> It’s estimated there are about 1.25 million english words, but a lot of those are scientific terms.
> 
> Anyone up to building a cross reference database that can be searched quickly?
> 
> Rick
> 
>> “miaou” is two syllables
> 
>> On Mar 21, 2022, at 10:56 AM, Craig Newman via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I would think one would need a database that maps all words with the number of syllables in those words. I am sure some sort of algorithm would do a creditable job, but I bet it would not do a perfect job. For example, and embedded “eau” is usually one syllable, but a word such as “miaou” is two syllables
>> 
>> Craig
> 
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