How many syllables in black?

There is 1 syllable in the word black.

Divide black into syllables:

black (adjective):: having no hue, owing to the absorption of all or almost all light; having the very dark color of the night sky or the eye's pupil of the color black (see black entry 2 sense 2); being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light.

blackish

brunette

coal-black

dark

dusky

ebony

inky

jet

murky

pitch-black

pitch-dark

pitchy

raven

sable

stygian

swarthy

bleached

chalk-white

ivory

light

milky

pearly

white

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