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prescriptive

How many syllables in prescriptive?

  3 syllables

Divide prescriptive into syllables:   pre-scrip-tive
Stressed syllable in prescriptive:   pre-scrip-tive
How to pronounce prescriptive:   pri-skrip-tiv
How to say prescriptive:

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      What rhymes with prescriptive

      3 syllables
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