How many syllables in encryption?

There are 3 syllables in the word encryption.

Divide encryption into syllables:

encryption (noun):: the activity of converting data or information into code.; the act or process of encrypting something a conversion of something (such as data) into a code or cipher

coding

compression

data encryption

encoding

secret writing

steganography

codebreaking

decryption

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