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candlelight

How many syllables in candlelight?

  3 syllables

Divide candlelight into syllables:   can-dle-light
Primary syllable stress:   can-dle-light
Secondary syllable stress:   can-dle-light
How to pronounce candlelight:   kan-dl-lite
How to say candlelight:

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