genteel

How many syllables in genteel?

  2 syllables

Divide genteel into syllables:   gen-teel
Stressed syllable in genteel:   gen-teel
How to pronounce genteel:   jen-teel
How to say genteel:

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Synonyms for genteel


2 syllables
  • discreet
  • proper
  • polite
  • refined
3 syllables
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What rhymes with genteel

1 syllable
  • Beal
  • cele
  • deal
  • feel
  • gilles
  • heal
  • keel
  • kiel
  • leal
  • mele
  • neel
  • peal
  • Peele
  • seal
  • she'll
  • skeel
  • squeal
  • steel
  • teal
  • veal
  • Weil
  • zeal
  • Beall
  • creel
  • eel
  • feil
  • he'll
  • heel
  • keele
  • kneel
  • meal
  • Neal
  • Neil
  • peel
  • reel
  • seel
  • shiel
  • spiel
  • steal
  • Steele
  • teel
  • we'll
  • wheel
2 syllables
  • aiguille
  • anneal
  • bastille
  • big wheel
  • bonemeal
  • Brasil
  • Camille
  • Castile
  • chainwheel
  • cogwheel
  • congeal
  • diel
  • eared seal
  • Emile
  • fiel
  • fish meal
  • forefeel
  • freewheel
  • good deal
  • handwheel
  • inchmeal
  • mild steel
  • misdeal
  • Mobile
  • mouthfeel
  • New Deal
  • nosewheel
  • O'Neill
  • oneill
  • pastille
  • pinwheel
  • real
  • reseal
  • Riel
  • schlemiel
  • side-wheel
  • somedeal
  • stabile
  • Tar Heel
  • thumbwheel
  • unseal
3 syllables
  • Adriel
  • for real
  • ideal
  • prayer wheel
  • reelable
  • unreal
  • corneal
  • get real
  • irreal
  • puerile
  • surreal
4 syllables
6 syllables
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