mainstay

How many syllables in mainstay?

  2 syllables

Divide mainstay into syllables:   main-stay
Primary syllable stress:   main-stay
Secondary syllable stress:   main-stay
How to pronounce mainstay:   meyn-stey
How to say mainstay:

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Synonyms for mainstay


1 syllable
  • core
    2 syllables
    • basis
    • pillar
    • support
    3 syllables
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      What rhymes with mainstay

      1 syllable
      • bombe
      • da
      • Ewe
      • Kobe
      • meze
      • pk
      • quale
      • cube
      • DA
      • frieze
      • lwei
      • PA
      • PK
      2 syllables
      • abbé
      • agley
      • airway
      • allay
      • Angers
      • archway
      • ashtray
      • astray
      • away
      • backstay
      • base pay
      • beignet
      • beltway
      • beret
      • bewray
      • bikeway
      • Biscay
      • blasé
      • Bombay
      • bouchée
      • boule
      • Bourget
      • Bouvet
      • Broadway
      • byplay
      • cachet
      • café
      • Cambay
      • causeway
      • chalet
      • chassé
      • ciré
      • co-pay
      • convey
      • corvée
      • coupé
      • crochet
      • crossway
      • cy pres
      • daresay
      • deejay
      • delay
      • dismay
      • distrait
      • donnée
      • doorway
      • dragée
      • duvet
      • embay
      • épée
      • estray
      • fairway
      • filet
      • fireclay
      • flambé
      • floodway
      • folkway
      • foray
      • forebay
      • forestay
      • forte
      • foul play
      • four-way
      • foyer
      • frappé
      • Friday
      • gainsay
      • gamay
      • gateway
      • give way
      • godet
      • Green Bay
      • guideway
      • hair spray
      • hallway
      • harm's way
      • headway
      • Hebei
      • heyday
      • hold sway
      • horseplay
      • in play
      • inlay
      • Islay
      • jackstay
      • jennet
      • Jetway
      • koine
      • lamé
      • leeway
      • Lomé
      • lycée
      • maguey
      • Malay
      • man-day
      • Manet
      • margay
      • match play
      • May Day
      • Medway
      • midday
      • Midway
      • Millet
      • misplay
      • Monday
      • Mornay
      • Niamey
      • noonday
      • nosegay
      • OK
      • ombré
      • osprey
      • outlay
      • outstay
      • oyez
      • parkway
      • parquet
      • passé
      • pathway
      • payday
      • per se
      • pipe clay
      • piquet
      • plié
      • pommée
      • portray
      • projet
      • puree
      • Quesnay
      • Rahway
      • rappee
      • relay
      • replay
      • roadway
      • role-play
      • rosé
      • Roubaix
      • runway
      • saint's day
      • sansei
      • sauté
      • scrub jay
      • shar-pei
      • shipway
      • sick bay
      • sick pay
      • Skopje
      • slideway
      • sluiceway
      • soiree
      • someway
      • soufflé
      • spillway
      • stairway
      • stingray
      • strathspey
      • subway
      • survey
      • swordplay
      • tempeh
      • thruway
      • tideway
      • Tokay
      • Torbay
      • toupee
      • tramway
      • Twelfth Day
      • unlay
      • V-day
      • veejay
      • visé
      • walkway
      • Wednesday
      • white way
      • wood ray
      • workday
      • affray
      • airplay
      • all-day
      • allée
      • Anhui
      • array
      • assay
      • Augier
      • aweigh
      • ballet
      • bat ray
      • belay
      • benday
      • betray
      • bidet
      • birthday
      • Bizet
      • bobstay
      • Bossuet
      • bouclé
      • bouquet
      • bourrée
      • breezeway
      • buffet
      • byway
      • CAFE
      • cahier
      • Cathay
      • chaîné
      • chambray
      • child's play
      • cliché
      • congé
      • Corday
      • coudé
      • crawlway
      • croquet
      • curé
      • D-day
      • decay
      • defray
      • dengue
      • display
      • DJ
      • doomsday
      • downplay
      • driveway
      • Earl Grey
      • entrée
      • essay
      • fair play
      • filé
      • fillet
      • fishway
      • flight pay
      • flyway
      • footway
      • force play
      • foreplay
      • formée
      • fouetté
      • Fouquet
      • fourchée
      • franglais
      • freeway
      • fumet
      • Galway
      • gangway
      • gelée
      • glacé
      • gourmet
      • greenway
      • gunplay
      • halfway
      • Hannay
      • hatchway
      • hearsay
      • Hefei
      • highway
      • hooray
      • Hubei
      • in re
      • inveigh
      • issei
      • James Bay
      • jeté
      • keyway
      • kouprey
      • lay day
      • lifeway
      • Lord's day
      • M-day
      • make hay
      • malgré
      • Mande
      • manqué
      • massé
      • maté
      • Mayday
      • melee
      • midway
      • Millay
      • mislay
      • moiré
      • Monet
      • name day
      • nisei
      • Norway
      • obey
      • olé
      • one-way
      • Otway
      • outré
      • outweigh
      • parfait
      • parlay
      • partway
      • pâté
      • pavé
      • pearl gray
      • pince-nez
      • piqué
      • pith ray
      • plissé
      • Pompeii
      • prepay
      • pulque
      • purvey
      • raceway
      • railway
      • red bay
      • repay
      • risqué
      • Roget
      • ropeway
      • rosebay
      • roué
      • sachet
      • Salé
      • sashay
      • screenplay
      • seaway
      • Shark Bay
      • short-day
      • sick day
      • sideway
      • skyway
      • slipway
      • soigné
      • someday
      • soothsay
      • speedway
      • squeeze play
      • sternway
      • straightway
      • stroke play
      • Sunday
      • sweet bay
      • tea tray
      • thoughtway
      • Thursday
      • today
      • tollway
      • touché
      • trackway
      • Tuesday
      • two-way
      • unsay
      • valet
      • vide
      • Vouvray
      • waylay
      • weekday
      • windway
      • wordplay
      3 syllables
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