Syllables World: Mastering Syllable Identification

How many syllables in Folly?

folly has 2 syllables

fol-ly

lack of good sense or judgment; foolishness

The first syllable 'fol' has one vowel 'o' and one consonant 'f'. The second syllable 'ly' has one vowel 'y' and one consonant 'l'.

Noun

His decision to invest all his savings in the stock market was a great folly.

'The greatest folly of all is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.' - Arthur Schopenhauer
'The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.' - Helen Rowland
'A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. ' - Benjamin Disraeli