provoking

How many syllables in provoking?

  3 syllables

Divide provoking into syllables:   pro-vok-ing
Stressed syllable in provoking:   pro-vok-ing
How to pronounce provoking:   pruh-voh-king
How to say provoking:

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        2 syllables
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