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behaving

How many syllables in behaving?

  3 syllables

Divide behaving into syllables:   be-hav-ing
How to say behaving:

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What rhymes with behaving

2 syllables
  • braving
  • craving
  • raving
  • shaving
  • stavrite
  • caving
  • paving
  • saving
  • staving
  • waiving
3 syllables
    4 syllables
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