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frightful

How many syllables in frightful?

  2 syllables

Divide frightful into syllables:   fright-ful
Stressed syllable in frightful:   fright-ful
How to pronounce frightful:   frahyt-full
How to say frightful:

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2 syllables
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What rhymes with frightful

2 syllables
3 syllables
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