Calculate the number of syllables in a word.
A syllable is the vowel sound in any English word. The number of times a vowel appears in a word determines the number of syllables in that word. However, duplicate vowels are not counted multiple times—if any vowel is repeated more than once in a single word, it is counted only once.
The English language has five main vowels: a, e, i, o, and u. Vowels with similar sounds are also counted only once. For example, the word yield has only one syllable. This is because y is not counted—e and i are real vowels, and they have similar vowel sounds, so they are counted only once. Therefore, yield has a syllable count of one.
In English, the letter y can also be considered a vowel if the word contains no other vowels. For example, the word cry has one vowel (y), so it has one syllable.
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