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Nearly always. A syllable is made of the 'syllable nucleus', which is nearly always a vowel, and often consonants before and after it.

More or less, the only letters which serve as syllable nuclei which are not vowels are R, L, M, and N (as in the word bitten pronounced bit-n with a nasal ihn sound).

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