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paraphrastic

How many syllables in paraphrastic?

  4 syllables

Divide paraphrastic into syllables:   par-a-phras-tic
Primary syllable stress:   par-a-phras-tic
Secondary syllable stress:   par-a-phras-tic
How to pronounce paraphrastic:   par-uh-fras-tik
How to say paraphrastic:

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