How many syllables in encephalitis?

There are 5 syllables in the word encephalitis.

How to pronounce encephalitis:

encephalitis (noun):: inflammation of the brain usually caused by a virus; symptoms include headache and neck pain and drowsiness and nausea and fever ('phrenitis' is no longer in scientific use).; inflammation of the brain that is caused especially by infection with a virus (such as herpes simplex or west nile virus) or less commonly by bacterial or fungal infection or autoimmune reaction

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