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Is clothes a syllable or vowel?

"Clothes" is a word, not a syllable or a vowel. It has two syllables: "clo" and "thes".

Let's break it down:

* Syllable: A unit of pronunciation that consists of a single vowel sound, with or without surrounding consonants.

* Vowel: A speech sound produced with an open vocal tract, such as "a", "e", "i", "o", and "u".

So, "clothes" has two syllables and contains the vowels "o" and "e".

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