rhetoric

How many syllables in rhetoric?

  3 syllables

Divide rhetoric into syllables:   rhet-o-ric
Stressed syllable in rhetoric:   rhet-o-ric
How to pronounce rhetoric:   ret-er-ik
How to say rhetoric:

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1 syllable
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2 syllables
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4 syllables
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