Syllables World: Mastering Syllable Identification

How many syllables in Lance?

lance has 1 syllables

lance

a long weapon with a pointed metal head, used by knights on horseback

The word 'lance' has one syllable. There is one vowel (a) and three consonants (l, n, c)

Noun

The knight rode into battle with his lance.

“A knight's tale is not what is written in ink on parchment or carved into stone. It is the struggle of memory against forgetting, a struggle that all of us wage against the silence of oblivion, each in his own way, every day.” - William Marshal, who was a famous knight and skilled with the lance.
“A good lancer in the old days was worth a dozen archers.” - George R.R. Martin, author of 'Game of Thrones'
“The lance gave way like a toothpick, and then the man fell to the ground.” - Bernard Cornwell, author of 'The Last Kingdom'