How many syllables in figure of speech?

Figure of speech has 4 syllables.

Syllables in figure of speech

4 syllables

Divide figure of speech into syllables

fig-ure of speech

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Numbers of characters

16 (c, e, e, e, f, f, g, h, i, o, p, r, s, u)

Unique letters

11 (c, e, f, g, h, i, o, p, r, s, u)

figure of speech backwards

hceeps fo erugif

figure of speech sorted alphabetically

ceeeffghioprsu

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#	Sentence
1.	That's nothing but a figure of speech.
2.	It's just a figure of speech.
3.	That was only a figure of speech.
4.	It's a figure of speech.
5.	That was a just figure of speech.
6.	That was a figure of speech.
7.	It was just a figure of speech.
8.	"That story was so funny I literally died from laughter." "Then how come you're talking to me now?" "Of course, I didn't actually die, it was just a figure of speech." "So you're saying you used 'literally' in a figurative way." "Apparently. Got a problem with that?" "No, just finding it amusing that language can twist to the point that a word comes to mean its own opposite."