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underpinning

How many syllables in underpinning?

  4 syllables

Divide underpinning into syllables:   un-der-pin-ning
Primary syllable stress:   un-der-pin-ning
Secondary syllable stress:   un-der-pin-ning
How to pronounce underpinning:   un-der-pin-ing
How to say underpinning:

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