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counteraction

How many syllables in counteraction?

  4 syllables

Divide counteraction into syllables:   coun-ter-ac-tion
Primary syllable stress:   coun-ter-ac-tion
Secondary syllable stress:   coun-ter-ac-tion
How to say counteraction:

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