How many syllables in 'glowed'? (Dullest thread ever!!)

[hazeyjane]

Is it 1?
It feels like it should be one....

One!

www.howmanysyllables.com/

Two for fire, one for glowed. Northern accent.

One for glowed.
One for fire, because you count vowel sounds, and that final "e" is silent.

Now fire sounds like the weirdest word in the world....fī(-ə)r apparently (what that means though is gobbledygook (4 syllables?)

Go to bed dear girls
My head is done in with your...
Homework. I want wine.

Thinking more about fire, I think it could be one or two syllables, depending how it was said.

/ˈfaɪə(r)/

That’s ‘fie’ (the ai bit is a diphthong that sounds like ‘I’) and then ‘uh’ (the upside down e being a schwa, that nondescript ‘uh’ vowel that features a lot in English). (r) for rhotic or non-rhotic accebts, r pronounced or not.

I can just about imagine a one syllable rhotic version with a long vowel sound - kind of want to call my SIL (Belfast) and get her to say fire to me now!

In my mash-up of an accent it’s two syllables.

Glowed I think only has two syllables if you’re doing a Shakespearean ‘glow-ed’ kind of thing.

For me:

Glowed - one (gload)

Fire - two (fi-ur).

Don’t care what “howmanysyllables.com” says, or what it is in RP.