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corduroy

How many syllables in corduroy?

  3 syllables

Divide corduroy into syllables:   cor-du-roy
Primary syllable stress:   cor-du-roy
Secondary syllable stress:   cor-du-roy
How to pronounce corduroy:   kor-deh-roy
How to say corduroy:

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