Unavailing has 4 syllables and the stress is on the third syllable.
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1. | All efforts have been unavailing. | |
2. | By this I reached the roof-top, whence in vain / the luckless Teucrians hurled their unavailing rain. | |
3. | Weeping she spake, with unavailing woe, / and poured her sorrow to the winds, when lo, / in sight comes Helenus, with fair array, / and hails his friends, and hastening to bestow / glad welcome, toward his palace leads the way; / but tears and broken words his mingled thoughts betray. |