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adventitious

How many syllables in adventitious?

  4 syllables

Divide adventitious into syllables:   ad-ven-ti-tious
Primary syllable stress:   ad-ven-ti-tious
Secondary syllable stress:   ad-ven-ti-tious
How to pronounce adventitious:   ad-vun-tish-us
How to say adventitious:

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