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rocking-horse

How many syllables in rocking-horse?

  3 syllables

Divide rocking-horse into syllables:   rock-ing-horse
Primary syllable stress:   rock-ing-horse
Secondary syllable stress:   rock-ing-horse
How to say rocking-horse:

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