Syllable Counter

For each word it lowercases the letters, counts every maximal run of vowels (a, e, i, o, u and y) as one syllable, then subtracts one for a silent trailing e when the word would otherwise have more than one syllable. Every word with at least one letter counts as a minimum of one syllable.

In English y frequently carries the vowel sound in a syllable, as in rhythm, gym or lazy. Counting y as a vowel lets the tool give words that have no a, e, i, o or u group a sensible count instead of zero.

A trailing e that follows a consonant is usually silent in English, as in cake or make. The counter drops one syllable for that final e, but never below one, so cake counts as a single syllable rather than two.

It is a fast phonetic estimate rather than a dictionary lookup. English spelling is irregular, so a handful of words such as those with a spoken final e (recipe) or unusual vowel clusters can be off by one. For common words the estimate is reliable.

A word is a run of letters, optionally joined by internal apostrophes, so don't and it's are each read as one word. Anything that is not a letter or an internal apostrophe acts as a separator between words.

No. Digits, symbols and standalone punctuation are ignored because they contain no letters, so a token like 2026 or a lone dash adds nothing to the total and does not appear as a word chip.

Yes. The per-word chips and the running total make it easy to shape a 5-7-5 haiku or keep a line on meter, since you can see exactly which word pushes a line over or under the count you want.

There is no hard limit. The counting runs in your browser, so the practical ceiling is your device memory, and even long passages update almost instantly as you type.

Yes. Everything runs locally in your browser. Nothing you type is uploaded, logged or stored on a server.