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countercurrent

How many syllables in countercurrent?

  4 syllables

Divide countercurrent into syllables:   coun-ter-cur-rent
Primary syllable stress:   coun-ter-cur-rent
Secondary syllable stress:   coun-ter-cur-rent
How to pronounce countercurrent:   koun-ter-kur-ent
How to say countercurrent:

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