A syllable is a beat of sound in a word. The beat can sometimes be part of a word, or the whole word. For example 'window' has two beats ('win' – 'dow') but 'door' had just one ('door'). Breaking ...

What are the shortest words with a given number of syllables? “I” and “a” each contain one letter and one syllable, which is the tightest ratio we could realistically expect. Are there any two-letter ...