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disinfectant

How many syllables in disinfectant?

  4 syllables

Divide disinfectant into syllables:   dis-in-fect-ant
Primary syllable stress:   dis-in-fect-ant
Secondary syllable stress:   dis-in-fect-ant
How to pronounce disinfectant:   dis-in-fek-tent
How to say disinfectant:

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