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paternity

How many syllables in paternity?

  4 syllables

Divide paternity into syllables:   pa-ter-ni-ty
Stressed syllable in paternity:   pa-ter-ni-ty
How to pronounce paternity:   puh-tur-ni-tee
How to say paternity:

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