Boat has one syllable.
44 sounds
Two sounds
The word "stake" has four sounds: /s/ - /t/ - /ā/ - /k/.
If you mean tows as in 'He tows the boat', then toes is a homophone. A homophone is a word that sounds exactly the same.
seven sounds
The word "an" contains 1 sound, which is the sound of the short vowel "a."
There are many Latin words for "boat" or "ship":navicula is a small boatcapha is a boat (it is the origin of the word canoe)scapha is a boat or skifflinter is a small, light boatnavis is a large boat or shipnavigium is a large boat or ship
We only have 26 letters, but there are 44 speech sounds.
Three
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