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lose

How many syllables in lose?

  1 syllable

Divide lose into syllables:   lose
Syllable stress:   lose
How to pronounce lose:   looz
How to say lose:

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Synonyms for lose


1 syllable
  • drop
  • miss
  • waste
  • fail
  • spend
2 syllables
  • consume
  • escape
  • exhaust
  • go down
  • misplace
  • squander
  • elude
  • evade
  • forfeit
  • mislay
  • shake off
  • use up
3 syllables
  • be bereaved
  • hemorrhage
4 syllables
  • be defeated
  • get away from
  • free yourself of
  • suffer defeat
5 syllables
  • suffer the loss of
    6 syllables
    • be unable to find
    • liberate yourself from
    • give somebody the slip
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    What rhymes with lose

    1 syllable
    • blues
    • booze
    • brewst
    • chews
    • chuse
    • clues
    • crews
    • cruse
    • cues
    • do's
    • druze
    • dues
    • flews
    • fuse
    • goos
    • hewt
    • Hughes
    • jews
    • Meuse
    • moos
    • news
    • ooze
    • pews
    • ques
    • roose
    • schmooze
    • shoes
    • skews
    • sous
    • stews
    • strewth
    • tews
    • two's
    • U's
    • views
    • who've
    • woos
    • zoo's
    • boos
    • brews
    • bruise
    • choose
    • clews
    • coups
    • cruise
    • Cruz
    • dews
    • druse
    • Druze
    • ewes
    • flus
    • glues
    • hews
    • hues
    • huse
    • Loos
    • mews
    • muse
    • oohs
    • Ouse
    • Q's
    • queues
    • ruse
    • screws
    • shrews
    • snooze
    • spews
    • strews
    • sues
    • trews
    • twos
    • use
    • who's
    • whose
    • youse
    • zoos
    2 syllables
    • abuse
    • accuse
    • bemuse
    • chewstick
    • defuse
    • ensues
    • eschews
    • infuse
    • peruse
    • recuse
    • renews
    • reviews
    • shampoos
    • taboos
    • Toulouse
    • accrues
    • amuse
    • canoes
    • confuse
    • diffuse
    • enthuse
    • excuse
    • misuse
    • pursues
    • refuse
    • reuse
    • revues
    • suffuse
    • tattoos
    • transfuse
    3 syllables
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