Counting syllables by hand while drafting a haiku or fitting lyrics to a melody gets tedious fast. Our new syllable counter does it live, and it doesn’t hide how:
- Total, word count, and average — the headline numbers update on every keystroke.
- A per-word breakdown — see exactly how many syllables the tool counted for each word, not just a final total you have to trust blind.
- Consistent with our readability calculator — same vowel-group heuristic, same silent-e handling, so the two tools never disagree on the same text.
- Honest about limits — it’s a heuristic, not a dictionary lookup, and the FAQ says so plainly.
Like the rest of our text tools, nothing you type is uploaded — it never leaves your browser, and there’s no URL syncing since the input is your own draft text.
Also available en español and embeddable with a single iframe.