How many words have two syllables or more in the Gettysburg Address?

Answer 1

In Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, there are 70 words with two syllables or more. Of those 70 words, these words are repeated more than once:

1. people repeated 3x
2. dedicate repeated 2x
3. dedicated repeated 3x
4. nation repeated 5x
5. conceived repeated 2x
6. rather repeated 2x
7. devotion repeated 2x

To find the entire list of words with two syllables or more, visit the Related Link. Copy the Address into Word or Notepad. Use Control+H to open the Find-Replace Box. Search for all two letter words... put the word in Find, and leave the Replace Box empty...search only for Whole Words (look under More button on Find-Replace box and tick Whole Words). Next look for 3 letter words and remove. Check for 4 letter words and after sounding out each one, remove all that don't apply. When you do 5 letter words, listen carefully to how they sound... for example, "their" is 1 syllable, but aware is 2 syllables. Use Word Count under Tools to see how many you found. If you have more than 70, look for more words that are 1 syllable.

Answer 2

There are 246 words in the Gettysburg Address, and 175 of them have two syllables or more.