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allows

How many syllables in allows?

  2 syllables

Divide allows into syllables:   al-lows
How to say allows:

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What rhymes with allows

1 syllable
  • boughs
  • brows
  • chows
  • dhows
  • howes
  • plows
  • rouse
  • thous
  • wow
  • bows
  • browse
  • cows
  • how's
  • mows
  • prows
  • Taos
  • vows
2 syllables
  • arouse
  • bowsaw
  • caroused
  • espouse
  • avows
  • carouse
  • endows
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