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expense

How many syllables in expense?

  2 syllables

Divide expense into syllables:   ex-pense
Stressed syllable in expense:   ex-pense
How to pronounce expense:   ik-spens
How to say expense:

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Synonyms for expense


1 syllable
  • charge
  • fee
  • rate
  • cost
  • price
2 syllables
  • amount
  • outflow
  • price tag
  • figure
  • outlay
3 syllables
4 syllables
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What rhymes with expense

1 syllable
  • cents
  • fence
  • pence
  • sense
  • tense
  • whence
  • dense
  • hence
  • pense
  • Spence
  • thence
2 syllables
3 syllables
4 syllables
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