This phenomenon is called synalepha and should be taken in account when counting syllables, e.g. in poetry.

Readability tests, readability formulas, or readability metrics are formulae for evaluating the readability of text, usually by counting syllables, words, and sentences.

Don't fall into the trap of using "readability tests," a quantitative approach that counts syllables and words and comes up with a reading grade level.

Then he held the fist in the air, and used it to count syllables, as he said, "Bet bat bit bot but bite bait boat boot bought beat.

Unlike Portuguese or Catalan, Spanish rules count most syllables in rising diphthongs, not vowels, to assign written accents.

Campion is also notable because of his experiments with metres based on counting syllables rather than stresses.

Not counting closed syllables (those with a final glottal stop), a Shanghainese word of one syllable may carry one of three tones, high, mid, low.

There are various ways to count music, from simple numbers to counting syllables to beat placement syllables.

Difficulty identifying or generating rhyming words, or counting syllables in words (phonological awareness)

As in accentual-syllabic verse, there is some flexibility in how one counts syllables.