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playing

How many syllables in playing?

  2 syllables

Divide playing into syllables:   play-ing
Stressed syllable in playing:   play-ing
How to say playing:

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Synonyms for playing


1 syllable
  • live
    2 syllables
    • on stage
    • singing
    3 syllables
      4 syllables
      • in performance
        7 syllables
        • before a live audience
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          What rhymes with playing

          2 syllables
          • baying
          • frayings
          • haying
          • paying
          • preying
          • slaying
          • spraying
          • straying
          • swaying
          • fraying
          • graying
          • laying
          • praying
          • saying
          • slayings
          • staying
          • strayling
          • weighin
          3 syllables
          4 syllables
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