overlying

How many syllables in overlying?

  4 syllables

Divide overlying into syllables:   o-ver-ly-ing
Primary syllable stress:   o-ver-ly-ing
Secondary syllable stress:   o-ver-ly-ing
How to pronounce overlying:   oh-ver-lahy-ing
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What rhymes with overlying

2 syllables
  • buying
  • drying
  • dying
  • eying
  • frying
  • lying
  • prying
  • sighing
  • tieing
  • tying
  • crying
  • dyeing
  • eyeing
  • flying
  • guying
  • plying
  • shying
  • spying
  • trying
3 syllables
  • allying
  • belying
  • complying
  • defying
  • implying
  • relyric
  • retrying
  • undying
4 syllables
5 syllables
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