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

anguilla sucklandii

anguilliformes

common eel

conger

conger eel

elver

malacopterygian

moray

moray eel

order anguilliformes

order apodes

soft-finned fish

tuna

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