imagination

How many syllables in imagination?

  5 syllables

Divide imagination into syllables:   im-ag-i-na-tion
Primary syllable stress:   im-ag-i-na-tion
Secondary syllable stress:   im-ag-i-na-tion
How to pronounce imagination:   ih-maj-uh-ney-shun
How to say imagination:

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