How many syllables in “remember”?

“remember” has 3 syllables: re·mem·ber

IPA
/ɹɪ.ˈmɛm.bɚ/
Stress
re-MEM-ber (pattern 0-1-0)
Division
re·mem·ber

Pronunciation

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re-MEM-ber /ɹɪ.ˈmɛm.bɚ/ r ih · m eh m · b er 3 CMU dictionary

Syllables are shown in ARPAbet (the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary's phoneme alphabet). Respellings put the stressed syllable in capitals.

Syllables vs. morphemes

Syllables (3)
re·mem·ber
Morphemes (2)
re- + member

The syllable breaks of remember (re·mem·ber) line up with its morphemes (re- + member): every morpheme boundary is also a syllable boundary, so the word divides the same way for a syllable count and for a morphology exercise.

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Pronunciations from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Hyphenation from the hyph_en_US patterns.

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How many syllables are in "remember"?
"remember" has three syllables: re·mem·ber.
How do you divide "remember" into syllables?
re·mem·ber. The syllable breaks of remember (re·mem·ber) line up with its morphemes (re- + member): every morpheme boundary is also a syllable boundary, so the word divides the same way for a syllable count and for a morphology exercise.
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