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books

How many syllables in books?

  1 syllable

Divide books into syllables:   books
Syllable stress:   books
How to say books:

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What rhymes with books

1 syllable
  • Brooks
  • cooks
  • hooks
  • nooks
  • schnooks
  • cook's
  • crooks
  • looks
  • rooks
  • snooks
2 syllables
    3 syllables
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