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distinguishing

How many syllables in distinguishing?

  4 syllables

Divide distinguishing into syllables:   dis-tin-guish-ing
Stressed syllable in distinguishing:   dis-tin-guish-ing
How to pronounce distinguishing:   dih-sting-gwi-shing
How to say distinguishing:

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