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greenhorn

How many syllables in greenhorn?

  2 syllables

Divide greenhorn into syllables:   green-horn
Primary syllable stress:   green-horn
Secondary syllable stress:   green-horn
How to pronounce greenhorn:   green-hawrn
How to say greenhorn:

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      What rhymes with greenhorn

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