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performance

How many syllables in performance?

  3 syllables

Divide performance into syllables:   per-for-mance
How to pronounce performance:   per-for-mans
How to say performance:

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Synonyms for performance


1 syllable
  • act
  • feat
  • play
  • thing
  • deed
  • piece
  • show
2 syllables
  • circus
  • reading
  • running
  • staging
  • working
  • concert
  • routine
  • showing
  • technique
3 syllables
4 syllables
5 syllables
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What rhymes with performance

3 syllables
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