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sustainable

How many syllables in sustainable?

  4 syllables

Divide sustainable into syllables:   sus-tain-a-ble
Stressed syllable in sustainable:   sus-tain-a-ble
How to pronounce sustainable:   suh-stey-nuh-bull
How to say sustainable:

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