overhead

How many syllables in overhead?

  3 syllables

Divide overhead into syllables:   o-ver-head
Primary syllable stress:   o-ver-head
Secondary syllable stress:   o-ver-head
How to say overhead:

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1 syllable
  • bed
  • bread
  • dead
  • ed
  • fled
  • ged
  • jed
  • led
  • pled
  • red
  • said
  • shred
  • sped
  • stead
  • thread
  • wed
  • bled
  • bred
  • dread
  • fed
  • Fred
  • head
  • lead
  • med
  • read
  • redd
  • shed
  • sled
  • spread
  • Ted
  • tread
2 syllables
  • abed
  • ahead
  • colorbred
  • Holinshed
  • instead
  • purebred
  • saddlebred
  • unread
  • unwed
  • adread
  • behead
  • embed
  • imbed
  • misled
  • retread
  • sayed
  • unsaid
  • widespread
3 syllables
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