How many syllables in lymphocyte?

There are 3 syllables in the word lymphocyte.

How to pronounce lymphocyte:

lymphocyte (noun):: an agranulocytic leukocyte that normally makes up a quarter of the white blood cell count but increases in the presence of infection.; any of the colorless weakly motile cells originating from stem cells and differentiating in lymphoid tissue (as of the thymus or bone marrow) that are the typical cellular elements of lymph, include the cellular mediators of immunity, and constitute 20 to 30 percent of the white blood cells of normal human blood compare b cell, t cell

b cell

b lymphocyte

leucocyte

leukocyte

lymph cell

lymphatic system

lymphoblast

plasma cell

plasmacyte

systema lymphaticum

t cell

t lymphocyte

wbc

white blood cell

white blood corpuscle

white cell

white corpuscle

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Ambisyllabicity occurs when a consonant at the boundary of two syllables belongs to both, as in the word 'happen'.

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