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controversial

How many syllables in controversial?

  172596834 syllables

Divide controversial into syllables:   con-tro-ver-sial
Primary syllable stress:   con-tro-ver-sial
Secondary syllable stress:   con-tro-ver-sial
How to say controversial:

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