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metabolic

How many syllables in metabolic?

  4 syllables

Divide metabolic into syllables:   met-a-bol-ic
Primary syllable stress:   met-a-bol-ic
Secondary syllable stress:   met-a-bol-ic
How to pronounce metabolic:   met-uh-bol-ik
How to say metabolic:

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