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butterfish

How many syllables in butterfish?

  3 syllables

Divide butterfish into syllables:   but-ter-fish
Primary syllable stress:   but-ter-fish
Secondary syllable stress:   but-ter-fish
How to pronounce butterfish:   buht-er-fish
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