unemployed

How many syllables in unemployed?

  3 syllables

Divide unemployed into syllables:   un-em-ployed
Primary syllable stress:   un-em-ployed
Secondary syllable stress:   un-em-ployed
How to pronounce unemployed:   un-em-ploid
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