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knocking

How many syllables in knocking?

  2 syllables

Divide knocking into syllables:   knock-ing
Stressed syllable in knocking:   knock-ing
How to say knocking:

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What rhymes with knocking

2 syllables
  • blocking
  • docking
  • Hocking
  • mocking
  • shocking
  • stocking
  • cocking
  • flocking
  • locking
  • rocking
  • socking
3 syllables
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