How many syllables in eel?

There is 1 syllable in the word eel.

Divide eel into syllables:

eel (noun):: voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins.; any of numerous voracious elongate snakelike bony fishes (order anguilliformes) that have a smooth slimy skin, lack pelvic fins, and have the median fins confluent around the tail compare american eel

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