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birthday

How many syllables in birthday?

  2 syllables

Divide birthday into syllables:   birth-day
Primary syllable stress:   birth-day
Secondary syllable stress:   birth-day
How to pronounce birthday:   burth-dey
How to say birthday:

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    What rhymes with birthday

    1 syllable
    • bombe
    • da
    • Ewe
    • Kobe
    • meze
    • pk
    • quale
    • cube
    • DA
    • frieze
    • lwei
    • PA
    • PK
    2 syllables
    • abbé
    • agley
    • airway
    • allay
    • Angers
    • archway
    • ashtray
    • astray
    • away
    • backstay
    • base pay
    • beignet
    • beltway
    • beret
    • bewray
    • bikeway
    • Bizet
    • bobstay
    • Bossuet
    • bouclé
    • bouquet
    • bourrée
    • breezeway
    • buffet
    • byway
    • CAFE
    • cahier
    • Cathay
    • chaîné
    • chambray
    • child's play
    • cliché
    • congé
    • Corday
    • coudé
    • crawlway
    • croquet
    • curé
    • D-day
    • decay
    • defray
    • dengue
    • display
    • DJ
    • doomsday
    • downplay
    • driveway
    • Earl Grey
    • entrée
    • essay
    • fair play
    • filé
    • fillet
    • fishway
    • flight pay
    • flyway
    • footway
    • force play
    • foreplay
    • formée
    • fouetté
    • Fouquet
    • fourchée
    • franglais
    • freeway
    • fumet
    • Galway
    • gangway
    • gelée
    • glacé
    • gourmet
    • greenway
    • gunplay
    • halfway
    • Hannay
    • hatchway
    • hearsay
    • Hefei
    • highway
    • hooray
    • Hubei
    • in re
    • inveigh
    • issei
    • James Bay
    • jeté
    • keyway
    • kouprey
    • lay day
    • lifeway
    • Lord's day
    • M-day
    • mainstay
    • Malay
    • man-day
    • Manet
    • margay
    • match play
    • May Day
    • Medway
    • midday
    • Midway
    • Millet
    • misplay
    • Monday
    • Mornay
    • Niamey
    • noonday
    • nosegay
    • OK
    • ombré
    • osprey
    • outlay
    • outstay
    • oyez
    • parkway
    • parquet
    • passé
    • pathway
    • payday
    • per se
    • pipe clay
    • piquet
    • plié
    • pommée
    • portray
    • projet
    • puree
    • Quesnay
    • Rahway
    • rappee
    • relay
    • replay
    • roadway
    • role-play
    • rosé
    • Roubaix
    • runway
    • saint's day
    • sansei
    • sauté
    • scrub jay
    • shar-pei
    • shipway
    • sick bay
    • sick pay
    • Skopje
    • slideway
    • sluiceway
    • soiree
    • someway
    • soufflé
    • spillway
    • stairway
    • stingray
    • strathspey
    • subway
    • survey
    • swordplay
    • tempeh
    • thruway
    • tideway
    • Tokay
    • Torbay
    • toupee
    • tramway
    • Twelfth Day
    • unlay
    • V-day
    • veejay
    • visé
    • walkway
    • Wednesday
    • white way
    • wood ray
    • workday
    • affray
    • airplay
    • all-day
    • allée
    • Anhui
    • array
    • assay
    • Augier
    • aweigh
    • ballet
    • bat ray
    • belay
    • benday
    • betray
    • bidet
    • Biscay
    • blasé
    • Bombay
    • bouchée
    • boule
    • Bourget
    • Bouvet
    • Broadway
    • byplay
    • cachet
    • café
    • Cambay
    • causeway
    • chalet
    • chassé
    • ciré
    • co-pay
    • convey
    • corvée
    • coupé
    • crochet
    • crossway
    • cy pres
    • daresay
    • deejay
    • delay
    • dismay
    • distrait
    • donnée
    • doorway
    • dragée
    • duvet
    • embay
    • épée
    • estray
    • fairway
    • filet
    • fireclay
    • flambé
    • floodway
    • folkway
    • foray
    • forebay
    • forestay
    • forte
    • foul play
    • four-way
    • foyer
    • frappé
    • Friday
    • gainsay
    • gamay
    • gateway
    • give way
    • godet
    • Green Bay
    • guideway
    • hair spray
    • hallway
    • harm's way
    • headway
    • Hebei
    • heyday
    • hold sway
    • horseplay
    • in play
    • inlay
    • Islay
    • jackstay
    • jennet
    • Jetway
    • koine
    • lamé
    • leeway
    • Lomé
    • lycée
    • maguey
    • make hay
    • malgré
    • Mande
    • manqué
    • massé
    • maté
    • Mayday
    • melee
    • midway
    • Millay
    • mislay
    • moiré
    • Monet
    • name day
    • nisei
    • Norway
    • obey
    • olé
    • one-way
    • Otway
    • outré
    • outweigh
    • parfait
    • parlay
    • partway
    • pâté
    • pavé
    • pearl gray
    • pince-nez
    • piqué
    • pith ray
    • plissé
    • Pompeii
    • prepay
    • pulque
    • purvey
    • raceway
    • railway
    • red bay
    • repay
    • risqué
    • Roget
    • ropeway
    • rosebay
    • roué
    • sachet
    • Salé
    • sashay
    • screenplay
    • seaway
    • Shark Bay
    • short-day
    • sick day
    • sideway
    • skyway
    • slipway
    • soigné
    • someday
    • soothsay
    • speedway
    • squeeze play
    • sternway
    • straightway
    • stroke play
    • Sunday
    • sweet bay
    • tea tray
    • thoughtway
    • Thursday
    • today
    • tollway
    • touché
    • trackway
    • Tuesday
    • two-way
    • unsay
    • valet
    • vide
    • Vouvray
    • waylay
    • weekday
    • windway
    • wordplay
    3 syllables
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