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surprisal

How many syllables in surprisal?

  3 syllables

Divide surprisal into syllables:   sur-pris-al
Stressed syllable in surprisal:   sur-pris-al
How to pronounce surprisal:   ser-prahy-zul
How to say surprisal:

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