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inadequacy

How many syllables in inadequacy?

  5 syllables

Divide inadequacy into syllables:   in-ad-e-qua-cy
Stressed syllable in inadequacy:   in-ad-e-qua-cy
How to pronounce inadequacy:   in-ad-i-kwuh-see
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