How many syllables in affricative?

There are 4 syllables in the word affricative.

How to pronounce affricative:

affricative (noun):: a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as ch' inchair' and j' injoy').; a stop and its immediately following release into a fricative that are considered to constitute a single phoneme (such as the \t\ and \sh\ of \ch\ in choose)

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