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electric eel

How many syllables in electric eel?

  4 syllables

Divide electric eel into syllables:   e-lec-tric eel
How to pronounce electric eel:   ih-lek-trik eel
How to say electric eel:

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What rhymes with electric eel

4 syllables
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