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self-interest

How many syllables in self-interest?

  4 syllables

Divide self-interest into syllables:   self-in-ter-est
Primary syllable stress:   self-in-ter-est
Secondary syllable stress:   self-in-ter-est
How to say self-interest:

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    What rhymes with self-interest

    3 syllables
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