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detainees

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  2 syllables

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What rhymes with detainees

1 syllable
  • B's
  • bes
  • breeze
  • cees
  • crees
  • dees
  • drees
  • ease
  • feese
  • fleas
  • frees
  • freezed
  • G's
  • glees
  • jeez
  • keys
  • kreis
  • lees
  • mease
  • P's
  • pease
  • please
  • reis
  • S
  • sees
  • she's
  • skis
  • sneeze
  • squeeze
  • teas
  • tees
  • three's
  • trees
  • V's
  • Z's
  • bees
  • brees
  • C's
  • cheese
  • D's
  • draftees
  • E's
  • fees
  • feest
  • flees
  • freeze
  • frieze
  • gies
  • he's
  • keas
  • knees
  • leas
  • lessees
  • neese
  • peas
  • pleas
  • Rees
  • rupees
  • seas
  • seize
  • skees
  • sleaze
  • sprees
  • T's
  • tease
  • these
  • threes
  • trustee's
  • wheeze
2 syllables
  • abductees
  • adoptees
  • amputees
  • appease
  • attendees
  • breeze's
  • Cadiz
  • Chinese
  • deas
  • degrees
  • deportees
  • devotees
  • displease
  • enrollees
  • foresees
  • friese
  • he-man
  • inductees
  • jaycees
  • louise
  • neesing
  • Pawnees
  • reprise
  • skeesicks
  • trainees
  • trustees
  • yeas
  • absentees
  • agrees
  • andries
  • appointees
  • Belize
  • Burmese
  • chemise
  • conferees
  • decrees
  • deis
  • designees
  • disease
  • enlistees
  • escapees
  • franchisees
  • Geez
  • honorees
  • internees
  • licensees
  • Maltese
  • parolees
  • referee's
  • returnees
  • spreeuw
  • trapeze
  • unease
3 syllables
4 syllables
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