Find the number of syllables in a word

Question

I need to know the number of syllables in a word from English using NLTK. This is the code that I still have:

import curses 
from curses.ascii import isdigit 
import nltk
from nltk.corpus import cmudict 
d = cmudict.dict() 
def nsyl(word): 
   return [len(list(y for y in x if isdigit(y[-1]))) for x in d[word.lower()]] 

>>> nsyl(arithmetic)

After calling the function, I get a Name error message saying that arithmetic is not defined. Can someone help me figure out a bug in the code?

Answer 1

you need to put quotation marks around the word "arithmetic"