How many syllables in hooves?

There is 1 syllable in the word hooves.

Divide hooves into syllables:

hooves (noun):: the horny covering of the end of the foot in the horse, deer, and certain other mammals; a curved covering of horn that protects the front of or encloses the ends of the digits of an ungulate mammal and that corresponds to a nail or claw

cloot

foot

hoof

trotter

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