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clerk

How many syllables in clerk?

  1 syllable

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

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What rhymes with clerk

1 syllable
  • berk
  • Burk
  • chirk
  • derk
  • dirk
  • irk
  • Kirk
  • merc
  • murk
  • quirk
  • smirk
  • stirk
  • werk
  • yerk
  • birk
  • burke
  • cirque
  • derm
  • erk
  • jerk
  • lurk
  • merk
  • perk
  • shirk
  • sterk
  • Turk
  • work
2 syllables
  • berserk
  • wermethe
  • rework
3 syllables
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