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illiterate

How many syllables in illiterate?

  4 syllables

Divide illiterate into syllables:   il-lit-er-ate
Stressed syllable in illiterate:   il-lit-er-ate
How to pronounce illiterate:   ih-lit-er-it
How to say illiterate:

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