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waterfowl

How many syllables in waterfowl?

  3 syllables

Divide waterfowl into syllables:   wa-ter-fowl
Primary syllable stress:   wa-ter-fowl
Secondary syllable stress:   wa-ter-fowl
How to say waterfowl:

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