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populate

How many syllables in populate?

  3 syllables

Divide populate into syllables:   pop-u-late
Stressed syllable in populate:   pop-u-late
How to pronounce populate:   pop-yuh-leyt
How to say populate:

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2 syllables
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    What rhymes with populate

    3 syllables
    4 syllables
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