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pintail

How many syllables in pintail?

  2 syllables

Divide pintail into syllables:   pin-tail
Primary syllable stress:   pin-tail
Secondary syllable stress:   pin-tail
How to pronounce pintail:   pin-teyl
How to say pintail:

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