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oxymoron

How many syllables in oxymoron?

  4 syllables

Divide oxymoron into syllables:   ox-y-mo-ron
Primary syllable stress:   ox-y-mo-ron
Secondary syllable stress:   ox-y-mo-ron
How to say oxymoron:

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