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inattentiveness

How many syllables in inattentiveness?

  5 syllables

Divide inattentiveness into syllables:   in-at-ten-tive-ness
Primary syllable stress:   in-at-ten-tive-ness
Secondary syllable stress:   in-at-ten-tive-ness
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