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gingerbread

How many syllables in gingerbread?

  3 syllables

Divide gingerbread into syllables:   gin-ger-bread
Primary syllable stress:   gin-ger-bread
Secondary syllable stress:   gin-ger-bread
How to say gingerbread:

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