How many syllables in tides?

There is 1 syllable in the word tides.

How to pronounce tides:

tides (noun):: the current caused by these changes in level; a less marked rising and falling of an inland body of water; a periodic movement in the earth's crust caused by the same forces that produce ocean tides; a periodic distortion on one celestial body caused by the gravitational attraction of another; one of the periodic movements of the atmosphere resembling those of the ocean and produced by gravitation or diurnal temperature changes; the alternate rising and falling of the surface of the ocean and of water bodies (such as gulfs and bays) connected with the ocean that occurs usually twice a day and is the result of differing gravitational forces exerted at different parts of the earth by another body (such as the moon or sun)

course

current

currents

curves

directions

drifts

ebb

flow

leanings

lunar time period

runs

shifts

stream

tendencies

tide

tideway

trends

undertow

winds

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