Count vowels in a word

# Count vowels in a given word (with repetition)

english_vowels = ["a", "i", "e", "o", "u"]

def vowel_count(word):
    vcount = 0
    for x in word:
        if x in english_vowels:
            vcount += 1
    print("vowel count> ",vcount)
    return vcount

word= input("Enter a word > ")    # notice this output is a string, hence iterable
print( "'"+ word +"'"+ " has this many vowels: ",vowel_count(word))

# Can also use a list of one-lettered strings (characters?)
print(vowel_count(['a','b','e','s', 'e']))