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pays

How many syllables in pays?

  1 syllable

Divide pays into syllables:   pays
Syllable stress:   pays
How to say pays:

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What rhymes with pays

1 syllable
  • A's
  • bays
  • blaise
  • braise
  • braze
  • claes
  • crase
  • dase
  • days
  • faze
  • frays
  • gays
  • glaze
  • graze
  • Hayes
  • haze
  • jays
  • kays
  • lased
  • leis
  • maes
  • mase
  • maze
  • oles
  • phrase
  • praise
  • preys
  • rase
  • rays
  • res
  • slays
  • stays
  • sways
  • wais
  • way's
  • weighs
  • baize
  • baze
  • blaze
  • brays
  • chaise
  • clays
  • craze
  • day's
  • daze
  • frase
  • fraze
  • gaze
  • grays
  • hase
  • hays
  • J's
  • K's
  • lase
  • lays
  • leys
  • maize
  • Mays
  • nays
  • phase
  • plays
  • prays
  • raise
  • ray's
  • raze
  • shays
  • sprays
  • strays
  • trays
  • waise
  • ways
  • yea
2 syllables
  • ablaze
  • amaze
  • arrays
  • ballets
  • belays
  • blase
  • buffets
  • cafes
  • cliches
  • crases
  • decays
  • delays
  • displays
  • filets
  • malays
  • obeys
  • pais
  • raza
  • rephrase
  • shazam
  • today's
  • valets
  • allays
  • appraise
  • ballet's
  • bazoo
  • betrays
  • bouquets
  • caches
  • chalets
  • conveys
  • dais
  • defrays
  • dismays
  • essays
  • malaise
  • morays
  • okays
  • portrays
  • repays
  • replays
  • surveys
  • todays
  • weighshaft
3 syllables
4 syllables
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