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heretical

How many syllables in heretical?

  4 syllables

Divide heretical into syllables:   he-ret-i-cal
Stressed syllable in heretical:   he-ret-i-cal
How to pronounce heretical:   her-et-i-kal
How to say heretical:

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        What rhymes with heretical

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