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defying

How many syllables in defying?

  3 syllables

Divide defying into syllables:   de-fy-ing
How to say defying:

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What rhymes with defying

2 syllables
  • buying
  • drying
  • dying
  • eying
  • frying
  • lying
  • prying
  • sighing
  • tieing
  • tying
  • crying
  • dyeing
  • eyeing
  • flying
  • guying
  • plying
  • shying
  • spying
  • trying
3 syllables
4 syllables
5 syllables
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