expurgation

How many syllables in expurgation?

  4 syllables

Divide expurgation into syllables:   ex-pur-ga-tion
Primary syllable stress:   ex-pur-ga-tion
Secondary syllable stress:   ex-pur-ga-tion
How to say expurgation:

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