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applying

How many syllables in applying?

  3 syllables

Divide applying into syllables:   ap-ply-ing
How to say applying:

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What rhymes with applying

2 syllables
  • buying
  • drying
  • dying
  • eying
  • frying
  • lying
  • prying
  • sighing
  • tieing
  • tying
  • crying
  • dyeing
  • eyeing
  • flying
  • guying
  • plying
  • shying
  • spying
  • trying
3 syllables
  • belying
  • complying
  • defying
  • implying
  • relyric
  • retrying
  • undying
4 syllables
5 syllables
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