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How many syllables in Kraken?

kraken has 2 syllables

krak-en

a legendary sea monster resembling a giant octopus or squid.

The word 'kraken' has two syllables. The vowel sounds are 'a' and 'e', and the consonant sounds are 'k' and 'n'.

Noun

The kraken was said to have terrorized sailors in the olden days.

'The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee / About his shadowy sides: above him swell / Huge sponges of millennial growth and height; / And far away into the sickly light, / From many a wondrous grot and secret cell / Unnumbered and enormous polypi / Winnow with giant fins the slumbering green.' - Alfred Lord Tennyson
'The Kraken, a mythological sea monster, is a fitting name for a creature that is likely to be the largest living invertebrate on the planet.' - David Scheel
'The Kraken is a symbol of the enemy we fear, the power we do not understand, and the monster that we cannot defeat.' - J.R. McRae