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decency

How many syllables in decency?

  3 syllables

Divide decency into syllables:   de-cen-cy
Stressed syllable in decency:   de-cen-cy
How to pronounce decency:   dee-sun-see
How to say decency:

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          What rhymes with decency

          3 syllables
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