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jellyfish

How many syllables in jellyfish?

  3 syllables

Divide jellyfish into syllables:   jel-ly-fish
Primary syllable stress:   jel-ly-fish
Secondary syllable stress:   jel-ly-fish
How to pronounce jellyfish:   jel-ee-fish
How to say jellyfish:

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