Number of syllables distribution

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Ah, I should have known
My question would have been what to do with e- and i-clusters. I wouldn't have come up with your solution for conditional treatment of "e", but it's certainly a good option.
I can follow the conditional status of [ch], but I think I would have gambled on [sh] always constituting a syllable, assuming that the diacritic indicates contraction.

Still I think your list is very illuminating. It's not often that I wake up with a deep VM-related question and an answer is presented so well

I also agree that the apparent presence of a relatively small amount of 0-syllable words is nothing to be worried about. The shortage of words over three syllables long is much stranger. I came to this question while thinking how I would turn Latin into Voynichese. Confronted with words like "Maximilianus", the only option would be to either split words or drop vowels. And that's only to get the number of syllables right, because then you have to deal with limited word structure.