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colony

How many syllables in colony?

  3 syllables

Divide colony into syllables:   col-o-ny
Stressed syllable in colony:   col-o-ny
How to pronounce colony:   kol-uh-nee
How to say colony:

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2 syllables
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3 syllables
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