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bacterial

How many syllables in bacterial?

  4 syllables

Divide bacterial into syllables:   bac-te-ri-al
Stressed syllable in bacterial:   bac-te-ri-al
How to pronounce bacterial:   bak-ter-ee-yal
How to say bacterial:

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