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lief

How many syllables in lief?

  1 syllable

Divide lief into syllables:   lief
Syllable stress:   lief
How to pronounce lief:   leef
How to say lief:

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What rhymes with lief

1 syllable
  • beef
  • brief
  • cleave
  • eve
  • fief
  • grief
  • heave
  • leaf
  • peeve
  • reef
  • reif
  • seif
  • sheave
  • steeve
  • thieve
  • weave
  • breve
  • chief
  • eave
  • Eve
  • greave
  • grieve
  • kief
  • leave
  • reave
  • reeve
  • reive
  • sheaf
  • sleeve
  • thief
  • we've
2 syllables
  • belief
  • keef
  • motif
  • relief
  • scrieve
  • debrief
  • massif
  • O'Keeffe
  • rief
  • sharif
3 syllables
    4 syllables
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