population

How many syllables in population?

  4 syllables

Divide population into syllables:   pop-u-la-tion
Primary syllable stress:   pop-u-la-tion
Secondary syllable stress:   pop-u-la-tion
How to pronounce population:   pop-yuh-ley-shun
How to say population:

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