academic

How many syllables in academic?

  4 syllables

Divide academic into syllables:   ac-a-dem-ic
Primary syllable stress:   ac-a-dem-ic
Secondary syllable stress:   ac-a-dem-ic
How to pronounce academic:   ak-uh-dem-ik
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1 syllable
  • learned
  • school
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2 syllables
  • bookish
  • college
  • teacher
  • brainy
  • highbrow
  • thinker
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4 syllables
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6 syllables
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