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Shakespearean

How many syllables in Shakespearean?

  4 syllables

Divide Shakespearean into syllables:   Shake-spear-e-an
Stressed syllable in Shakespearean:   Shake-spear-e-an
How to pronounce Shakespearean:   sheyk-speer-ee-yan
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