How many syllables in clergy?

There are 2 syllables in the word clergy.

How to pronounce clergy:

clergy (noun):: priests and ministers as a group; in Christianity, clergymen collectively (as distinguished from the laity).; a group ordained to perform pastoral or sacerdotal functions in a christian church

cardinalate

church

churchmen or women

clergyman

clergymen or women

clerics

cloth

ecclesiastics

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first estate

hierarchy

holy orders

man of the cloth

ministry

pastorate

prelacy

prelature

priesthood

reverend

spirituality

spiritualty

the cloth

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