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catfish

How many syllables in catfish?

  2 syllables

Divide catfish into syllables:   cat-fish
Primary syllable stress:   cat-fish
Secondary syllable stress:   cat-fish
How to pronounce catfish:   kat-fish
How to say catfish:

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