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compunctious

How many syllables in compunctious?

  3 syllables

Divide compunctious into syllables:   com-punc-tious
Stressed syllable in compunctious:   com-punc-tious
How to pronounce compunctious:   kum-puhngk-shus
How to say compunctious:

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