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Why Is Flour One Syllable and Flower Two?

• Flour is one syllable, flower is two.
• Why:
• A syllable is the sound of a vowel that is created when pronouncing an A, E, I, O, U, or Y.
• read the full definition of a syllable: here
Flour
• Flour is pronounced: fl-ow-r.
• The O and U make one vowel sound, ow. The remaining sound is made by the R, which is not a vowel.
• Since there is only 1 vowel sound from the vowels "ou", there can be only 1 syllable.
Flower
• flower is pronounced: fl-ow-er.
• The OW make one vowel sound. The remaining sound is made by the ER.
• Since the E is a vowel and there are two vowel sounds, flower is 2 syllables.

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