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benign

How many syllables in benign?

  2 syllables

Divide benign into syllables:   be-nign
Stressed syllable in benign:   be-nign
How to pronounce benign:   bih-nahyn
How to say benign:

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Synonyms for benign


1 syllable
  • kind
  • nice
2 syllables
  • caring
  • gracious
  • gentle
  • kindly
3 syllables
    4 syllables
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    What rhymes with benign

    1 syllable
    • brine
    • dine
    • fine
    • Jain
    • Kline
    • lyne
    • nine
    • prine
    • Quine
    • Rhine
    • shine
    • sign
    • spine
    • Stein
    • swine
    • thine
    • trine
    • tyne
    • vine
    • wine
    • cline
    • dyne
    • hine
    • Klein
    • line
    • mine
    • pine
    • pyne
    • Rhein
    • rine
    • shrine
    • sine
    • spline
    • stine
    • thein
    • tine
    • twine
    • tyned
    • whine
    • wyne
    2 syllables
    • affine
    • align
    • alkyne
    • assign
    • baseline
    • Bernstein
    • blue line
    • bowline
    • buntline
    • canine
    • carbine
    • clothesline
    • combine
    • condign
    • consign
    • cutline
    • deadline
    • define
    • divine
    • dragline
    • dynel
    • Einstein
    • entwine
    • ethyne
    • ferine
    • gold mine
    • guideline
    • hard-line
    • hemline
    • Holbein
    • incline
    • jawline
    • lang syne
    • lifeline
    • longline
    • mainline
    • midline
    • moonshine
    • off-line
    • opine
    • outshine
    • Pauline
    • pipeline
    • pontine
    • potline
    • punch line
    • recline
    • refine
    • repine
    • roofline
    • saline
    • shoreline
    • skyline
    • streamline
    • subline
    • supine
    • taurine
    • touchline
    • tramline
    • trotline
    • tumpline
    • untwine
    • vulpine
    • white line
    • yard line
    • airline
    • aline
    • alpine
    • balkline
    • beeline
    • bloodline
    • bovine
    • breadline
    • byline
    • caprine
    • cervine
    • coastline
    • compline
    • confine
    • corvine
    • dateline
    • decline
    • design
    • divined
    • driveline
    • earthshine
    • enshrine
    • equine
    • feline
    • frontline
    • grapevine
    • hairline
    • headline
    • hipline
    • hotline
    • indign
    • landline
    • lead line
    • limine
    • lupine
    • malign
    • moline
    • neckline
    • online
    • outline
    • ovine
    • Petrine
    • piscine
    • porcine
    • propine
    • quinine
    • redline
    • reline
    • resign
    • Sabine
    • setline
    • sideline
    • strandline
    • strychnine
    • sunshine
    • syncline
    • topline
    • towline
    • trephine
    • truckline
    • turbine
    • ursine
    • waistline
    • woodbine
    3 syllables
    • disincline
    • GYN
    • mineable
    • reassign
    • redefine
    4 syllables
    5 syllables
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