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understudy

How many syllables in understudy?

  4 syllables

Divide understudy into syllables:   un-der-stud-y
Primary syllable stress:   un-der-stud-y
Secondary syllable stress:   un-der-stud-y
How to pronounce understudy:   un-der-stuhd-ee
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What rhymes with understudy

4 syllables
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