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battle-ax

How many syllables in battle-ax?

  3 syllables

Divide battle-ax into syllables:   bat-tle-ax
Primary syllable stress:   bat-tle-ax
Secondary syllable stress:   bat-tle-ax
How to say battle-ax:

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