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make-believe

How many syllables in make-believe?

  3 syllables

Divide make-believe into syllables:   make-be-lieve
Primary syllable stress:   make-be-lieve
Secondary syllable stress:   make-be-lieve
How to say make-believe:

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3 syllables
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