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disinfection

How many syllables in disinfection?

  4 syllables

Divide disinfection into syllables:   dis-in-fec-tion
Primary syllable stress:   dis-in-fec-tion
Secondary syllable stress:   dis-in-fec-tion
How to say disinfection:

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