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confectionery

How many syllables in confectionery?

  5 syllables

Divide confectionery into syllables:   con-fec-tion-er-y
Stressed syllable in confectionery:   con-fec-tion-er-y
How to pronounce confectionery:   kun-fek-shuh-ner-ee
How to say confectionery:

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