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lakes

How many syllables in lakes?

  1 syllable

Divide lakes into syllables:   lakes
Syllable stress:   lakes
How to say lakes:

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What rhymes with lakes

1 syllable
  • aches
  • brakes
  • cakes
  • fakes
  • hakes
  • lake's
  • quakes
  • sakes
  • snake's
  • stakes
  • takes
  • bakes
  • breaks
  • drakes
  • flakes
  • Jakes
  • makes
  • rakes
  • shakes
  • snakes
  • steaks
  • wake
2 syllables
  • awakes
  • remakes
3 syllables
  • haketon
    4 syllables
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