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behooves

How many syllables in behooves?

  2 syllables

Divide behooves into syllables:   be-hooves
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What rhymes with behooves

1 syllable
  • grooves
  • moves
  • hooves
  • proves
2 syllables
  • disproves
  • remove
3 syllables
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