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phoney

How many syllables in phoney?

  2 syllables

Divide phoney into syllables:   pho-ney
How to pronounce phoney:   foh-nee
How to say phoney:

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What rhymes with phoney

2 syllables
  • boney
  • buffone
  • cassone
  • coney
  • mony
  • pony
  • stoney
  • toney
  • bony
  • buffont
  • ciccone
  • crony
  • phony
  • sony
  • stony
  • tony
3 syllables
  • Antoni
  • baroni
  • cassoni
  • Marconi
  • schiavone
  • Shoshone
4 syllables
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