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knell

How many syllables in knell?

  1 syllable

Divide knell into syllables:   knell
Syllable stress:   knell
How to pronounce knell:   nel
How to say knell:

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What rhymes with knell

1 syllable
  • bel
  • belle
  • cell
  • dell
  • dwell
  • ell
  • fell
  • gell
  • hell
  • L
  • mel
  • pell
  • schnell
  • selle
  • smell
  • spell
  • swell
  • tell
  • yell
  • zel
  • bell
  • cel
  • del
  • Dell
  • el
  • Elle
  • gel
  • Hel
  • jell
  • l
  • mell
  • quell
  • sell
  • shell
  • snell
  • stell
  • tel
  • well
  • yelled
2 syllables
  • accel
  • Ansel
  • bedel
  • bendel
  • boutell
  • Brownell
  • cartel
  • Cavell
  • compel
  • corel
  • daniele
  • dispel
  • estelle
  • expel
  • ferrel
  • foretell
  • gazelle
  • hormel
  • impel
  • lapel
  • Marcel
  • Maybelle
  • misspell
  • motel
  • Nobel
  • nouvelles
  • odell
  • pastel
  • Purcell
  • repel
  • retell
  • rozelle
  • schnittlaugh
  • twaddell
  • unsell
  • varveled
  • adele
  • arvel
  • befell
  • bendell
  • bracknell
  • Cabell
  • carvel
  • Chanel
  • Cordell
  • Cornell
  • Darnell
  • dispell
  • excel
  • farewell
  • fidel
  • gabel
  • Giselle
  • hotel
  • intel
  • mantell
  • Marvell
  • Miguel
  • morel
  • nevel
  • nouvelle
  • novell
  • outsell
  • patel
  • Raquel
  • resell
  • Rochelle
  • ruelle
  • sell-by
  • tyrrell
  • varvel
3 syllables
4 syllables
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