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calamitous

How many syllables in calamitous?

  4 syllables

Divide calamitous into syllables:   ca-lam-i-tous
Stressed syllable in calamitous:   ca-lam-i-tous
How to pronounce calamitous:   kuh-lam-i-tus
How to say calamitous:

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