Yes it does and heres an easy way to tell. Count the number of times your bottom jaw opens when you say a word and that is the number of syllables in the word.
there are two syllables in helpful
There are two syllables. Help-ful.
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there are two syllables
potent, helpful, useful, forceful, weighty, valid, lucid, cogent, lawful, legal, binding
There are two syllables. In-spired.
There are two syllables. Pump-kin.
Daybreak has two syllables. The syllables are day-break.
It has two syllables.
Two syllables.
Memory is not one or two syllables; it is three syllables.
The word desert has two syllables.