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potentate

How many syllables in potentate?

  3 syllables

Divide potentate into syllables:   po-ten-tate
Stressed syllable in potentate:   po-ten-tate
How to pronounce potentate:   poht-n-teyt
How to say potentate:

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2 syllables
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