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self-sufficiency

How many syllables in self-sufficiency?

  5 syllables

Divide self-sufficiency into syllables:   self-suf-fi-cien-cy
Primary syllable stress:   self-suf-fi-cien-cy
Secondary syllable stress:   self-suf-fi-cien-cy
How to say self-sufficiency:

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What rhymes with self-sufficiency

4 syllables
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