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cucumber

How many syllables in cucumber?

  3 syllables

Divide cucumber into syllables:   cu-cum-ber
Stressed syllable in cucumber:   cu-cum-ber
How to pronounce cucumber:   kyoo-kuhm-ber
How to say cucumber:

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