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deadwood

How many syllables in deadwood?

  2 syllables

Divide deadwood into syllables:   dead-wood
Primary syllable stress:   dead-wood
Secondary syllable stress:   dead-wood
How to pronounce deadwood:   ded-wood
How to say deadwood:

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