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paddlefish

How many syllables in paddlefish?

  3 syllables

Divide paddlefish into syllables:   pad-dle-fish
Primary syllable stress:   pad-dle-fish
Secondary syllable stress:   pad-dle-fish
How to pronounce paddlefish:   pad-l-fish
How to say paddlefish:

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