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obelisk

How many syllables in obelisk?

  3 syllables

Divide obelisk into syllables:   ob-e-lisk
Stressed syllable in obelisk:   ob-e-lisk
How to pronounce obelisk:   ob-uh-lisk
How to say obelisk:

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