couscous

How many syllables in couscous?

  2 syllables

Divide couscous into syllables:   cous-cous
Primary syllable stress:   cous-cous
Secondary syllable stress:   cous-cous
How to pronounce couscous:   koos-koos
How to say couscous:

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2 syllables
  • Aarhus
  • abuse
  • Atreus
  • burnoose
  • Cayuse
  • charmeuse
  • chartreuse
  • cut loose
  • diffuse
  • educe
  • excuse
  • footloose
  • induce
  • misuse
  • negus
  • papoose
  • produce
  • Purus
  • red spruce
  • refuse
  • reuse
  • seduce
  • snow goose
  • Theseus
  • transduce
  • unloose
  • abstruse
  • adduce
  • blue spruce
  • caboose
  • ceruse
  • Chartreuse
  • conduce
  • deduce
  • disuse
  • effuse
  • fair use
  • hang loose
  • Lanús
  • mongoose
  • obtuse
  • prepuce
  • profuse
  • recluse
  • reduce
  • retuse
  • Sanctus
  • slip noose
  • Tereus
  • traduce
  • turn loose
  • vamoose
3 syllables
  • Cepheus
  • Orpheus
  • Perseus
  • proteus
  • Morpheus
  • Peleus
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