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locking

How many syllables in locking?

  2 syllables

How to say locking:

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What rhymes with locking

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