ENGLISH QUIZ: Can YOU crack these tricky syllables?

Answer these questions and tell us just how many syllables each word contains! Illustration: Uttam Ghosh

The word 'doctor' contains two syllables -- doc-tor.

Then there's 'pottery', which contains three (pott-er-y) and 'God', which contains just one.

If you still don't know what syllables are, exactly, here's the formal definition -- a syllable is a unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound (with or without surrounding consonants), forming the whole or a part of a word.

In the following pages, we bring you various words -- see if you can count the correct number of syllables in each.

Answers are provided upon submission of results on each page and you can draw your own conclusions about your performance!

How many syllables does the following word contain?
PARCEL
a) Two
b) Six
c) Three

How many syllables does the following word contain?
ANTAGONISE
a) Seven
b) Three
c) Four

How many syllables does the following word contain?
DOG
a) Half
b) One
c) Two

How many syllables does the following word contain?
OCEAN
a) Two
b) Five
c) Four

How many syllables does the following word contain?
IMPRESSIVE
a) Four
b) Three
c) Five

How many syllables does the following word contain?
TREMBLE
a) One
b) Two
c) Seven

How many syllables does the following word contain?
ONOMATOPOEIA
a) Six
b) Seven
c) Eight

How many syllables does the following word contain?
GRASS
a) Five
b) Two
c) One

How many syllables does the following word contain?
AWKWARD
a) Three
b) Two
c) Six

How many syllables does the following word contain?
GARGANTUAN
a) Three
b) Four
c) Six

How many syllables does the following word contain?
SPUTTER
a) Two
b) Two and a half
c) Three

How many syllables does the following word contain?
CHOCOLATE
a) Three
b)Four
c) Eight

How many syllables does the following word contain?
FUTURISTIC
a) Six
b) Five
c) Four

How many syllables does the following word contain?
POUT
a) Two
b) One
c) Half

How many syllables does the following word contain?
CRUCIFEROUS
a) Five
b) Four
c) Nine

How many syllables does the following word contain?
ECSTASY
a) Three
b) Seven
c) Five

How many syllables does the following word contain?
FOLKLORE
a) Four
b) Three
c) Two

How many syllables does the following word contain?
HYPERSENSITIVITY
a) Eight
b) Seven
c) Ten

How many syllables does the following word contain?
DELVE
a) One
b) Two
c) One and a half

How many syllables does the following word contain?
SCRUMPTIOUS
a) Four
b) Two
c) Six

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