complication

How many syllables in complication?

  4 syllables

Divide complication into syllables:   com-pli-ca-tion
Primary syllable stress:   com-pli-ca-tion
Secondary syllable stress:   com-pli-ca-tion
How to pronounce complication:   kom-pli-key-shun
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