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purgatorial

How many syllables in purgatorial?

  5 syllables

Divide purgatorial into syllables:   pur-ga-to-ri-al
Primary syllable stress:   pur-ga-to-ri-al
Secondary syllable stress:   pur-ga-to-ri-al
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What rhymes with purgatorial

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