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disallowance

How many syllables in disallowance?

  4 syllables

Divide disallowance into syllables:   dis-al-low-ance
Primary syllable stress:   dis-al-low-ance
Secondary syllable stress:   dis-al-low-ance
How to say disallowance:

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