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brakes

How many syllables in brakes?

  1 syllable

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

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What rhymes with brakes

1 syllable
  • aches
  • breaks
  • drakes
  • flakes
  • Jakes
  • lakes
  • quakes
  • sakes
  • snake's
  • stakes
  • takes
  • bakes
  • cakes
  • fakes
  • hakes
  • lake's
  • makes
  • rakes
  • shakes
  • snakes
  • steaks
  • wake
2 syllables
  • awakes
  • remakes
3 syllables
  • haketon
    4 syllables
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