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circumvention

How many syllables in circumvention?

  4 syllables

Divide circumvention into syllables:   cir-cum-ven-tion
Primary syllable stress:   cir-cum-ven-tion
Secondary syllable stress:   cir-cum-ven-tion
How to say circumvention:

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