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contrabass

How many syllables in contrabass?

  3 syllables

Divide contrabass into syllables:   con-tra-bass
Primary syllable stress:   con-tra-bass
Secondary syllable stress:   con-tra-bass
How to pronounce contrabass:   kon-truh-beys
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