My word for today is.....

[flammableBen]

if it's 3 you are saying it wrong.

zeit is 1. like kite or reit. Geist is also 1, a bit like friend or heist. There's no need to make a third syllable from the two consecutive hard consonant sounds of t,g.

Of course I could be wrong. And I'm sure you can get into some crazy advanced meta language shit where it can be broken down into 5 depending on the type of syllable you're talkaing about. Standard normal syllables though it's two.

[leefer]

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/zeitgeist

[Reg Smeeton]

 Well it's a German word, so may be pronounced somewhat differently in the loathsome, guttural, Teutonic accent.

[flammableBen]

Anyway back on subject. I'm still in love with adumbrate.