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goodwife

How many syllables in goodwife?

  2 syllables

Divide goodwife into syllables:   good-wife
Primary syllable stress:   good-wife
Secondary syllable stress:   good-wife
How to pronounce goodwife:   good-wahyf
How to say goodwife:

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