The word delicatessen has five syllables, as follows:
del i ca TES sen (accent on syllable four).
Accent marks developed in many languages to denote different ways of pronouncing vowels (as I believe is the case with French) and marking cases where the stressed syllable differs from the general rules (as in Spanish). English, with its many linguistic influences, did not develop this system in its written spelling, perhaps because it has an unusually high number of vowel sounds (not just a e i o u and y but the actual phonetic sounds, all 12, long and short vowels as well as dipthongs like the ai sound in "ride." Denoting all of these with a separate symbol simply isn't how the written language progressed, and would be a highly complex way of writing. English also doesn't have as rigid of emphasis rules as Spanish has, making it difficult to distinguish which words' stressed syllables should have accents in English.
There are three Chinese syllables in the word "syllables."
There are two syllables in the word "prolong".
There are three syllables in the word "allegiance."
there are 2 syllables!
There are 5. (De-li-cat-ess-en)
Phonetically it's 'Few sha ... Two syllables, with accent on the first.
Four syllables: Mes o zo ic (accent on the zo).
Angling has two syllables, with the accent on the first. The syllable breakdown is an-gling
4 Four syllables: ta ran tu la (accent on the second syllable)
There are three syllables in the word origin. The syllable divisions are or-i-gin, and the accent is on the first syllable.
There are two syllables in "shameful," with the accent on the first. The syllable breakdown is shame-ful.
Marquee has 2 syllables. Phonetically it's Mar' key, with the accent on the first syllable.
Four syllables, accent on the second.
The word immobilize consists of 4 syllables, which are: im mob il ize. Accent is on the second syllable.
An-oth-er.
Just the one. Unless you say it with an accent like "Guh-reen."