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intravenous

How many syllables in intravenous?

  4 syllables

Divide intravenous into syllables:   in-tra-ve-nous
Primary syllable stress:   in-tra-ve-nous
Secondary syllable stress:   in-tra-ve-nous
How to pronounce intravenous:   in-truh-vee-nus
How to say intravenous:

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