How many syllables in catfish?

There are 2 syllables in the word catfish.

Divide catfish into syllables:

catfish (noun):: flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed.; any of an order (siluriformes) of chiefly freshwater stout-bodied scaleless bony fishes having long tactile barbels

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