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penicillin

How many syllables in penicillin?

  4 syllables

Divide penicillin into syllables:   pen-i-cil-lin
How to pronounce penicillin:   pen-uh-sil-in
How to say penicillin:

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What rhymes with penicillin

2 syllables
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  • dillon
  • gillan
  • Spillane
  • bouillon
  • Dylan
  • quillon
  • villain
3 syllables
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