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porcupine

How many syllables in porcupine?

  3 syllables

Divide porcupine into syllables:   por-cu-pine
Stressed syllable in porcupine:   por-cu-pine
How to pronounce porcupine:   pawr-kyuh-pahyn
How to say porcupine:

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