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painstaking

How many syllables in painstaking?

  3 syllables

Divide painstaking into syllables:   pains-tak-ing
Primary syllable stress:   pains-tak-ing
Secondary syllable stress:   pains-tak-ing
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2 syllables
  • careful
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3 syllables
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What rhymes with painstaking

3 syllables
4 syllables
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