How many syllables in minority?

There are 4 syllables in the word minority.

How to pronounce minority:

minority (noun):: the smaller in number of two groups constituting a whole; a number or percentage equaling less than half of a total; a group of people who differ racially or politically from a larger group of which it is a part.; Someone's youth is the period of their life during which they are a child, before they are a fully mature adult.

adolescence

childhood

figure

immaturity

juvenescence

majority

minor

nonage

youth

adulthood

adultness

ethnic majority

experience

later life

majority

manhood

maturation

maturity

old age

parenthood

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