Dictionaries are a great source for that.
To find an article that was posted on the Yahoo site yesterday, you need to access the site and look at the date.
If you sound it out just how you would in elementary school, using the method of clapping your hands, you would find that there are 3 syllables in that word. If your not sure you can also try look in the dictionary. Usually in a dictionary the word will be separated into parts to show the individual syllables. For instance, when looking up conenvenient it would be shown like this: con ven ient.
There is one syllable in the word "looked" If it were 2 syllables it would sound like : look-ed. Jbush
"Fish that look like rock" has five syllables.
Yesterday's moon phase would have been a waning crescent, with only a small sliver of the moon visible in the sky. It would have appeared as a thin curved shape in the early morning hours before sunrise.
No she's not pregnant and she didn't look it yesterday.
There are 2 syllables in the word "looking" (look-ing).
Think about it, what day is it two days before Saturday? Look on the calender if you can't figure it out. Two days before saturday would be Thursday. If Thursday was yesterday, then today would be Friday.
There are 12 syllables. (They look good in an off-ice or a cub-i-cle)
Happiness has 3 syllables. Look at it this way: Happ-i-ness.
There are 3 syllables in "inscription". Take a look: in~scrip~tion
There are two syllables like so: riv-er.