affliction

How many syllables in affliction?

  3 syllables

Divide affliction into syllables:   af-flic-tion
Stressed syllable in affliction:   af-flic-tion
How to pronounce affliction:   uh-flik-shun
How to say affliction:

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Synonyms for affliction


1 syllable
  • blight
  • woe
  • pain
2 syllables
  • burden
  • problem
  • hardship
  • trouble
3 syllables
  • misery
  • suffering
4 syllables
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    What rhymes with affliction

    2 syllables
    • diction
    • friction
    • fiction
    3 syllables
    4 syllables
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