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excuse

How many syllables in excuse?

  2 syllables

Divide excuse into syllables:   ex-cuse
Stressed syllable in excuse:   ex-cuse
How to say excuse:

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Synonyms for excuse


1 syllable
  • free
  • plea
  • guise
  • spare
2 syllables
  • absolve
  • bear with
  • discharge
  • explain
  • let off
  • pardon
  • reason
  • relieve
  • acquit
  • defense
  • exempt
  • forgive
  • not blame
  • pretext
  • release
3 syllables
  • alibi
  • placebo
  • justify
  • tolerate
4 syllables
5 syllables
    6 syllables
    • make allowances for
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    What rhymes with excuse

    1 syllable
    • blues
    • boose
    • brews
    • Bruce
    • chews
    • chuse
    • clues
    • cruce
    • cruse
    • cues
    • dews
    • druse
    • dues
    • flus
    • glues
    • goose
    • hewt
    • hues
    • huse
    • loose
    • luce
    • mews
    • moose
    • muse
    • noose
    • ooze
    • queues
    • ruse
    • screws
    • shrews
    • sluice
    • sous
    • spruce
    • strews
    • sues
    • truce
    • two's
    • use
    • who's
    • whose
    • youse
    • zoos
    • boos
    • booze
    • brewst
    • bruise
    • choose
    • clews
    • crews
    • cruise
    • Cruz
    • deuce
    • do's
    • druze
    • ewes
    • fuse
    • goos
    • hews
    • hoose
    • Hughes
    • juice
    • lose
    • Meuse
    • moos
    • mousse
    • news
    • oohs
    • pews
    • roose
    • schmooze
    • shoes
    • skews
    • snooze
    • spews
    • stews
    • strewth
    • tews
    • trues
    • twos
    • views
    • who've
    • woos
    • zoo's
    2 syllables
    • Aarhus
    • abuse
    • accuse
    • amuse
    • Atreus
    • berceuse
    • burnoose
    • canoes
    • ceruse
    • charmeuse
    • chartreuse
    • coiffeuse
    • confuse
    • couscous
    • danseuse
    • defuse
    • diseuse
    • duce
    • effuse
    • enthuse
    • fair use
    • hang loose
    • incuse
    • infuse
    • masseuse
    • mongoose
    • obtuse
    • perfuse
    • prepuce
    • profuse
    • Purus
    • recuse
    • reduce
    • renews
    • reuse
    • revues
    • seduce
    • slip noose
    • suffuse
    • tattoos
    • Theseus
    • traduce
    • transfuse
    • unloose
    • abstruse
    • accrues
    • adduce
    • Andrews
    • bemuse
    • blue spruce
    • caboose
    • Cayuse
    • chanteuse
    • Chartreuse
    • chewstick
    • conduce
    • coos
    • cut loose
    • deduce
    • diffuse
    • disuse
    • educe
    • ensues
    • eschews
    • footloose
    • ill-use
    • induce
    • Lanús
    • misuse
    • negus
    • papoose
    • peruse
    • produce
    • pursues
    • recluse
    • red spruce
    • refuse
    • retuse
    • reviews
    • Sanctus
    • shampoos
    • snow goose
    • taboos
    • Tereus
    • Toulouse
    • transduce
    • turn loose
    • vamoose
    3 syllables
    • Cepheus
    • goosander
    • Morpheus
    • overuse
    • Perseus
    • Proteus
    • underuse
    • disabuse
    • introduce
    • Orpheus
    • Peleus
    • proteus
    • reproduce
    4 syllables
    5 syllables
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