Basic Examples (1) 

Find the phonetic syllable breaks in a word:

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Scope (2) 

Apply WordPhoneticSyllabify[w] to a list of words:

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Find the phonetic syllable divisions of a name (as pronounced in English):

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Options (1) 

Find the stressed and unstressed syllables for poetic meter by changing the "Stress" option to "Metric":

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Applications (3) 

Determine whether words rhyme by comparing the last syllable:

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Count the syllables in a line of poetry ("Sonnet Composed At ____ Castle" by William Wordsworth):

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Count the feet in the same line of poetry:

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Properties and Relations (3) 

WordData can give a word's phonetic form without the syllable breaks:

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WordData can also provide the hyphenation breaks of a word, but notice that they are not always the same as phonetic syllable breaks:

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WordData returns Missing for many proper nouns, poetic words, nonsense words, etc., while WordPhoneticSyllabify uses AI to supply the missing data:

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Possible Issues (1) 

WordPhoneticSyllabify does make mistakes, mostly in the placement of syllable breaks, on about 1% of Modern English words and about 2% of Elizabethan English words:

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Neat Examples (1) 

Use WordPhoneticSyllabify as the foundation for scansion of a line of poetry (here, Emily Dickinson's 656th poem):

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