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dactylic

How many syllables in dactylic?

  3 syllables

Divide dactylic into syllables:   dac-tyl-ic
Stressed syllable in dactylic:   dac-tyl-ic
How to pronounce dactylic:   dak-til-ik
How to say dactylic:

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What rhymes with dactylic

3 syllables
  • acrylic
  • Cyrillic
  • allylic
  • idyllic
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