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If you have the two separate words, it's 二日{ふつか} and 三日{みっか}. But how are they read together? ふた、みっか, に、さんにち, some combination thereof or something else entirely?

Source sentence for the curious:

アキちゃんは広いお屋敷で二、三日ゆったり過ごしてくればいいのよ。

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It reads に、さんにち (the comma is purely orthographic, you may or may not write it out).

Similarly, we say...

一、二日　いち、ににち
三、四日　さん、よっか ← irregular!
四、五日　し、ごにち
五、六日　ご、ろくにち

Longer span equivalents are hardly heard, perhaps because we come to use "a week" (一週間) or other higher units then, I suppose.

ふた、みっか might actually sound surprisingly comprehensible to native speakers, but it never exists.

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    For 1~2, it is also common to say "一日、二日" (colloq. "いちんちふつか") (Perhaps dialectal, I'm not sure.) – Yosh Jul 18 '15 at 13:11
  • あー、何かいろいろあるっぽいですね http://oshiete.goo.ne.jp/qa/7434195.html 個人的には上に挙げたのしか使いませんが、「１、２日」と書いて「いちにちふつか」と読む（読ませる？）パターンもあったりと、なかなか深いです。 – broccoli forest Jul 18 '15 at 13:18
  • おお，色々あるっぽい．ともかく5,6日まで挙げておられるのに +1 です． – Yosh Jul 18 '15 at 13:36
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It is read 「にさんにち」.

Colloquially, people say 「にさんち」 as well.