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alcoholic

How many syllables in alcoholic?

  4 syllables

Divide alcoholic into syllables:   al-co-hol-ic
Primary syllable stress:   al-co-hol-ic
Secondary syllable stress:   al-co-hol-ic
How to say alcoholic:

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5 syllables
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    What rhymes with alcoholic

    2 syllables
    • folic
    • frolic
    3 syllables
    • bucolic
    • symbolic
    4 syllables
    5 syllables
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