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expectative

How many syllables in expectative?

  4 syllables

Divide expectative into syllables:   ex-pect-a-tive
Stressed syllable in expectative:   ex-pect-a-tive
How to pronounce expectative:   ik-spek-tuh-tiv
How to say expectative:

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