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floodgate

How many syllables in floodgate?

  2 syllables

Divide floodgate into syllables:   flood-gate
How to pronounce floodgate:   fluhd-geyt
How to say floodgate:

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What rhymes with floodgate

2 syllables
  • abate
  • adnate
  • age-mate
  • airdate
  • alate
  • await
  • baldpate
  • baseplate
  • bedplate
  • birthrate
  • bite plate
  • blind date
  • bookplate
  • casemate
  • caudate
  • cerate
  • checkmate
  • chordate
  • classmate
  • cognate
  • comate
  • connate
  • create
  • crenate
  • cut-rate
  • deflate
  • dentate
  • dictate
  • disrate
  • doorplate
  • drawplate
  • end plate
  • estate
  • falcate
  • filtrate
  • fishplate
  • flatmate
  • flyweight
  • formate
  • gelate
  • ground state
  • hamate
  • headgate
  • helpmate
  • hot plate
  • hydrate
  • inflate
  • inmate
  • instate
  • jailbait
  • Kuwait
  • lapse rate
  • liftgate
  • lightweight
  • lobate
  • lunate
  • lych-gate
  • magnate
  • makeweight
  • messmate
  • misstate
  • nameplate
  • negate
  • nitrate
  • nutate
  • of late
  • ornate
  • palmate
  • peltate
  • pinnate
  • playdate
  • plicate
  • postdate
  • prime rate
  • prolate
  • prorate
  • prostrate
  • punctate
  • quadrate
  • ramate
  • red-bait
  • restate
  • rostrate
  • saccate
  • seatmate
  • sensate
  • serrate
  • short weight
  • soleplate
  • spectate
  • squamate
  • stalemate
  • striate
  • substrate
  • summate
  • teammate
  • tenth-rate
  • testate
  • tinplate
  • toeplate
  • tractate
  • tristate
  • unweight
  • uprate
  • V-8
  • vallate
  • vibrate
  • vulgate
  • workmate
  • ablate
  • aerate
  • agnate
  • airfreight
  • arête
  • backdate
  • bandmate
  • bedmate
  • berate
  • bistate
  • blank slate
  • blue plate
  • breastplate
  • castrate
  • cell plate
  • cheapskate
  • chelate
  • citrate
  • clavate
  • collate
  • conflate
  • cordate
  • cremate
  • curate
  • debate
  • delate
  • derate
  • dilate
  • donate
  • downstate
  • elate
  • equate
  • faceplate
  • fellate
  • first-rate
  • fixate
  • fluxgate
  • folate
  • frustrate
  • gestate
  • gyrate
  • hastate
  • Hell Gate
  • home plate
  • housemate
  • ice-skate
  • ingrate
  • innate
  • irate
  • khanate
  • lactate
  • legate
  • ligate
  • liquate
  • locate
  • lustrate
  • lyrate
  • makebate
  • mandate
  • migrate
  • mutate
  • narrate
  • Newgate
  • notate
  • oblate
  • orate
  • ovate
  • palpate
  • phonate
  • placate
  • playmate
  • portrait
  • predate
  • probate
  • pronate
  • prostate
  • pulsate
  • pupate
  • rain date
  • rebate
  • relate
  • roommate
  • rotate
  • schoolmate
  • sedate
  • septate
  • shipmate
  • slave state
  • soul mate
  • spicate
  • stagnate
  • stellate
  • sublate
  • sulcate
  • tailgate
  • Tebet
  • terneplate
  • third-rate
  • to date
  • tollgate
  • translate
  • truncate
  • update
  • upstate
  • vacate
  • valvate
  • virgate
  • whitebait
3 syllables
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