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Asked: 2026-06-03T11:27:16+00:00

Possible Duplicate: Detecting syllables in a word For kicks (and to brush up on

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Detecting syllables in a word

For kicks (and to brush up on my Python), I’m trying to create an algorithm that will randomly generate a Haiku (Japanese poem made up of three lines with 5, 7, and 5 syllables each).

The problem I’ve run into is finding the number of syllables in a word (I’m using the en-US.dic from Ubuntu).

Currently, I have a script running that attempts to grab the number reported by this web site, but that is slow, and isn’t generating many hits. This seems more promising, but I don’t know how to use Python to inject a word into their text box.

My question is two-fold:

  • Is there an algorithmic way to determine the number of syllables in a word (and thus, not need to make thousands of web requests)?
  • Can I use Python to inject words into WordCalc?
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  1. Editorial Team

    Download the Moby Hyphenated Word List. It has most English words and names hyphenated by syllable. The number of syllables would be the number of hyphen markers + number of spaces + number of actual hyphens + 1.

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