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empirical

How many syllables in empirical?

  4 syllables

Divide empirical into syllables:   em-pir-i-cal
How to pronounce empirical:   em-pir-i-kal
How to say empirical:

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What rhymes with empirical

3 syllables
  • lyrical
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