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sacrilegious

How many syllables in sacrilegious?

  4 syllables

Divide sacrilegious into syllables:   sac-ri-le-gious
Primary syllable stress:   sac-ri-le-gious
Secondary syllable stress:   sac-ri-le-gious
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