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asphyxiation

How many syllables in asphyxiation?

  5 syllables

Divide asphyxiation into syllables:   as-phyx-i-a-tion
Primary syllable stress:   as-phyx-i-a-tion
Secondary syllable stress:   as-phyx-i-a-tion
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