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goldfish

How many syllables in goldfish?

  2 syllables

Divide goldfish into syllables:   gold-fish
Primary syllable stress:   gold-fish
Secondary syllable stress:   gold-fish
How to pronounce goldfish:   gohld-fish
How to say goldfish:

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