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combat

How many syllables in combat?

  2 syllables

Divide combat into syllables:   com-bat
Stressed syllable in combat:   com-bat
How to say combat:

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Synonyms for combat


1 syllable
  • fight
  • war
2 syllables
  • action
  • dogfight
  • gunfight
  • skirmish
  • battle
  • duel
  • oppose
  • warfare
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What rhymes with combat

1 syllable
  • at
  • batt
  • cat
  • dat
  • flat
  • gnat
  • hatt
  • matt
  • Nat
  • patt
  • Platte
  • rat's
  • scat
  • spat
  • stat
  • that
  • bat
  • brat
  • chat
  • fat
  • gat
  • hat
  • mat
  • matte
  • pat
  • platt
  • rat
  • sat
  • slat
  • splat
  • tat
  • va
2 syllables
  • all that
  • at that
  • bath mat
  • bobcat
  • brickbat
  • brown rat
  • Cassatt
  • cowpat
  • Croat
  • defat
  • doormat
  • fat cat
  • firebrat
  • fly at
  • fruit bat
  • get at
  • hard hat
  • hellcat
  • high-hat
  • jurat
  • landsat
  • look at
  • MCAT
  • milk fat
  • mudflat
  • muscat
  • nonfat
  • pack rat
  • place mat
  • polecat
  • Rotblat
  • salt flat
  • silk hat
  • sneeze at
  • Sobat
  • standpat
  • strawhat
  • thereat
  • tipcat
  • top hat
  • whereat
  • white hat
  • wombat
  • at bat
  • backchat
  • begat
  • brass hat
  • brown fat
  • bullbat
  • chitchat
  • cravat
  • deep fat
  • dingbat
  • expat
  • fiat
  • flat-hat
  • format
  • gata
  • go at
  • have at
  • hepcat
  • house cat
  • keep at
  • leaf fat
  • Manx cat
  • meerkat
  • mole rat
  • Muscat
  • muskrat
  • old hat
  • pick at
  • plug hat
  • pot hat
  • rug rat
  • savate
  • slouch hat
  • snowcat
  • stand pat
  • stonechat
  • Surat
  • tin hat
  • tomcat
  • trans fat
  • whinchat
  • wildcat
  • wool fat
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