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pestilential

How many syllables in pestilential?

  4 syllables

Divide pestilential into syllables:   pes-ti-len-tial
Primary syllable stress:   pes-ti-len-tial
Secondary syllable stress:   pes-ti-len-tial
How to pronounce pestilential:   pes-tl-en-shul
How to say pestilential:

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What rhymes with pestilential

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