How many syllables in house mouse?

There are 2 syllables in the word house mouse.

Divide house mouse into syllables:

house mouse (noun):: a common nearly cosmopolitan grayish-brown mouse (mus musculus) that usually lives and breeds about buildings, may act as a vector of diseases, and is an important laboratory animal

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