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incarceration

How many syllables in incarceration?

  5 syllables

Divide incarceration into syllables:   in-car-cer-a-tion
Primary syllable stress:   in-car-cer-a-tion
Secondary syllable stress:   in-car-cer-a-tion
How to pronounce incarceration:   in-kahr-ser-ey-shun
How to say incarceration:

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