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disaster

How many syllables in disaster?

  3 syllables

Divide disaster into syllables:   dis-as-ter
Stressed syllable in disaster:   dis-as-ter
How to say disaster:

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Synonyms for disaster


1 syllable
  • blow
  • mess
2 syllables
  • bombshell
  • failure
  • mishap
  • shambles
  • crisis
  • heartbreak
  • ruin
  • washout
3 syllables
  • cataclysm
  • fiasco
  • tragedy
4 syllables
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What rhymes with disaster

2 syllables
  • aster
  • blaster
  • castor
  • gaster
  • master
  • pastor
  • raster
  • Astor
  • caster
  • faster
  • laster
  • paster
  • plaster
3 syllables
4 syllables
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