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candlefish

How many syllables in candlefish?

  3 syllables

Divide candlefish into syllables:   can-dle-fish
Primary syllable stress:   can-dle-fish
Secondary syllable stress:   can-dle-fish
How to pronounce candlefish:   kan-dl-fish
How to say candlefish:

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