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Ordovician

How many syllables in Ordovician?

  4 syllables

Divide Ordovician into syllables:   Or-do-vi-cian
Primary syllable stress:   Or-do-vi-cian
Secondary syllable stress:   Or-do-vi-cian
How to pronounce Ordovician:   awr-duh-vish-un
How to say Ordovician:

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