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contortive

How many syllables in contortive?

  3 syllables

Divide contortive into syllables:   con-tor-tive
Stressed syllable in contortive:   con-tor-tive
How to pronounce contortive:   kun-tawr-tiv
How to say contortive:

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What rhymes with contortive

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