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pocketknife

How many syllables in pocketknife?

  3 syllables

Divide pocketknife into syllables:   pock-et-knife
Primary syllable stress:   pock-et-knife
Secondary syllable stress:   pock-et-knife
How to pronounce pocketknife:   pok-it-nahyf
How to say pocketknife:

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What rhymes with pocketknife

3 syllables
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