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documentary

How many syllables in documentary?

  5 syllables

Divide documentary into syllables:   doc-u-men-ta-ry
Primary syllable stress:   doc-u-men-ta-ry
Secondary syllable stress:   doc-u-men-ta-ry
How to say documentary:

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What rhymes with documentary

3 syllables
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    4 syllables
    5 syllables
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