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backwater

How many syllables in backwater?

  3 syllables

Divide backwater into syllables:   back-wa-ter
Primary syllable stress:   back-wa-ter
Secondary syllable stress:   back-wa-ter
How to say backwater:

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Synonyms for backwater


2 syllables
  • the sticks
    3 syllables
    • remote place
    • the boondocks
    • the backwoods
    5 syllables
    • the back of beyond
      6 syllables
      • the middle of nowhere
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        What rhymes with backwater

        3 syllables
        4 syllables
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