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unemployment

How many syllables in unemployment?

  4 syllables

Divide unemployment into syllables:   un-em-ploy-ment
Primary syllable stress:   un-em-ploy-ment
Secondary syllable stress:   un-em-ploy-ment
How to pronounce unemployment:   un-em-ploi-ment
How to say unemployment:

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