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tuberculosis

How many syllables in tuberculosis?

  5 syllables

Divide tuberculosis into syllables:   tu-ber-cu-lo-sis
Primary syllable stress:   tu-ber-cu-lo-sis
Secondary syllable stress:   tu-ber-cu-lo-sis
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