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sugarplum

How many syllables in sugarplum?

  3 syllables

Divide sugarplum into syllables:   sug-ar-plum
Primary syllable stress:   sug-ar-plum
Secondary syllable stress:   sug-ar-plum
How to pronounce sugarplum:   shoog-er-pluhm
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