Sound the word out and the breaks are syllables. So milligram would be mil-li-gram.
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Break the work missionary into syllables like this: mis-sion-ar-y.
Sig-ni-fi-cant has four syllables.
There are three syllables broken up like so: al-low-ing.
aquar/i/um
moth-er
trav-el
There are two syllables like so: peo-ple.
There are two syllables in the word follow. The syllables of the word are fol-low.
There are two syllables divided like so: wa-ter.
There are three syllables like so: en-cour-age.
There are four syllables like so: e-lec-tro-cute.