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patrolling

How many syllables in patrolling?

  3 syllables

Divide patrolling into syllables:   pa-trol-ling
How to say patrolling:

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What rhymes with patrolling

2 syllables
  • bolling
  • doling
  • growling
  • poling
  • pollings
  • strolling
  • bowling
  • foaling
  • holing
  • polling
  • rolling
  • tolling
3 syllables
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