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self-defensive

How many syllables in self-defensive?

  412357986 syllables

Divide self-defensive into syllables:   self-de-fen-sive
Primary syllable stress:   self-de-fen-sive
Secondary syllable stress:   self-de-fen-sive
How to say self-defensive:

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