How many syllables in chiasmus?

There are 3 syllables in the word chiasmus.

Divide chiasmus into syllables:

chiasmus (noun):: noun. inversion in the second of two parallel phrases.; an inverted relationship between the syntactic elements of parallel phrases (as in goldsmith's to stop too fearful, and too faint to go)

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