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illegitimacy

How many syllables in illegitimacy?

  6 syllables

Divide illegitimacy into syllables:   il-le-git-i-ma-cy
Primary syllable stress:   il-le-git-i-ma-cy
Secondary syllable stress:   il-le-git-i-ma-cy
How to pronounce illegitimacy:   il-i-jit-uh-muh-see
How to say illegitimacy:

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