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hairdresser

How many syllables in hairdresser?

  3 syllables

Divide hairdresser into syllables:   hair-dress-er
Primary syllable stress:   hair-dress-er
Secondary syllable stress:   hair-dress-er
How to pronounce hairdresser:   hair-dres-er
How to say hairdresser:

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