Syllables World: Mastering Syllable Identification

How many syllables in Averted?

averted has 3 syllables

avert-ed

turned away or prevented from happening

The first syllable has a vowel 'a' and the second syllable has a vowel 'e'. The consonants are 'v', 'r', 't', and 'd'.

Verb

She averted her gaze from the scary movie scene.

The only way to avert a crisis is to be aware of it.
We must learn to live together as brothers or we will perish together as fools.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
A stitch in time saves nine.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.