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filamentous

How many syllables in filamentous?

  4 syllables

Divide filamentous into syllables:   fil-a-men-tous
Primary syllable stress:   fil-a-men-tous
Secondary syllable stress:   fil-a-men-tous
How to pronounce filamentous:   fil-uh-men-tus
How to say filamentous:

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