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stepping-stone

How many syllables in stepping-stone?

  3 syllables

Divide stepping-stone into syllables:   step-ping-stone
Primary syllable stress:   step-ping-stone
Secondary syllable stress:   step-ping-stone
How to say stepping-stone:

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