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placate

How many syllables in placate?

  2 syllables

Divide placate into syllables:   pla-cate
Stressed syllable in placate:   pla-cate
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Synonyms for placate


1 syllable
  • calm
  • soothe
2 syllables
  • appease
  • defuse
  • calm down
  • subdue
3 syllables
  • mollify
  • pacify
4 syllables
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    What rhymes with placate

    2 syllables
    • abate
    • adnate
    • age-mate
    • airdate
    • alate
    • await
    • baldpate
    • baseplate
    • bedplate
    • birthrate
    • bite plate
    • blind date
    • bookplate
    • casemate
    • caudate
    • cerate
    • checkmate
    • chordate
    • classmate
    • cognate
    • comate
    • connate
    • create
    • crenate
    • cut-rate
    • deflate
    • dentate
    • dictate
    • disrate
    • doorplate
    • drawplate
    • end plate
    • estate
    • falcate
    • filtrate
    • fishplate
    • flatmate
    • fluxgate
    • folate
    • frustrate
    • gestate
    • gyrate
    • hastate
    • Hell Gate
    • home plate
    • housemate
    • ice-skate
    • ingrate
    • innate
    • irate
    • khanate
    • lactate
    • legate
    • ligate
    • liquate
    • locate
    • lustrate
    • lyrate
    • makebate
    • mandate
    • migrate
    • mutate
    • narrate
    • Newgate
    • notate
    • oblate
    • orate
    • ovate
    • palpate
    • phonate
    • playdate
    • plicate
    • postdate
    • prime rate
    • prolate
    • prorate
    • prostrate
    • punctate
    • quadrate
    • ramate
    • red-bait
    • restate
    • rostrate
    • saccate
    • seatmate
    • sensate
    • serrate
    • short weight
    • soleplate
    • spectate
    • squamate
    • stalemate
    • striate
    • substrate
    • summate
    • teammate
    • tenth-rate
    • testate
    • tinplate
    • toeplate
    • tractate
    • tristate
    • unweight
    • uprate
    • V-8
    • vallate
    • vibrate
    • vulgate
    • workmate
    • ablate
    • aerate
    • agnate
    • airfreight
    • arête
    • backdate
    • bandmate
    • bedmate
    • berate
    • bistate
    • blank slate
    • blue plate
    • breastplate
    • castrate
    • cell plate
    • cheapskate
    • chelate
    • citrate
    • clavate
    • collate
    • conflate
    • cordate
    • cremate
    • curate
    • debate
    • delate
    • derate
    • dilate
    • donate
    • downstate
    • elate
    • equate
    • faceplate
    • fellate
    • first-rate
    • fixate
    • floodgate
    • flyweight
    • formate
    • gelate
    • ground state
    • hamate
    • headgate
    • helpmate
    • hot plate
    • hydrate
    • inflate
    • inmate
    • instate
    • jailbait
    • Kuwait
    • lapse rate
    • liftgate
    • lightweight
    • lobate
    • lunate
    • lych-gate
    • magnate
    • makeweight
    • messmate
    • misstate
    • nameplate
    • negate
    • nitrate
    • nutate
    • of late
    • ornate
    • palmate
    • peltate
    • pinnate
    • playmate
    • portrait
    • predate
    • probate
    • pronate
    • prostate
    • pulsate
    • pupate
    • rain date
    • rebate
    • relate
    • roommate
    • rotate
    • schoolmate
    • sedate
    • septate
    • shipmate
    • slave state
    • soul mate
    • spicate
    • stagnate
    • stellate
    • sublate
    • sulcate
    • tailgate
    • Tebet
    • terneplate
    • third-rate
    • to date
    • tollgate
    • translate
    • truncate
    • update
    • upstate
    • vacate
    • valvate
    • virgate
    • whitebait
    3 syllables
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