How many syllables in barley?

There are 2 syllables in the word barley.

Divide barley into syllables:

barley (noun):: a grain of barley.; its seed used especially in malt beverages, breakfast foods, and stock feeds; a cereal grass (genus hordeum and especially h. vulgare) having the flowers in dense spikes with long awns and three spikelets at each joint of the rachis

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