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inability

How many syllables in inability?

  5 syllables

Divide inability into syllables:   in-a-bil-i-ty
Primary syllable stress:   in-a-bil-i-ty
Secondary syllable stress:   in-a-bil-i-ty
How to pronounce inability:   in-uh-bil-i-tee
How to say inability:

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