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underwear

How many syllables in underwear?

  3 syllables

Divide underwear into syllables:   un-der-wear
Primary syllable stress:   un-der-wear
Secondary syllable stress:   un-der-wear
How to pronounce underwear:   un-der-wair
How to say underwear:

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