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polio

How many syllables in polio?

  3 syllables

Divide polio into syllables:   po-li-o
How to pronounce polio:   poh-lee-oh
How to say polio:

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What rhymes with polio

1 syllable
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    2 syllables
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    3 syllables
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    • comme il faut
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    • do-si-do
    • dynamo
    • entrepôt
    • escargot
    • extrados
    • folio
    • fricandeau
    • gigolo
    • golden glow
    • guacharo
    • hammertoe
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    • Holy Joe
    • Idaho
    • in escrow
    • indigo
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    • little toe
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    • Maginot
    • medico
    • mistletoe
    • Monaco
    • nuncio
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    • Oreo
    • overgrow
    • ovolo
    • Papago
    • patio
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    • pomelo
    • portico
    • Prospero
    • quid pro quo
    • raree-show
    • Richard Roe
    • rococo
    • Romeo
    • round window
    • Sapporo
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    • Scorpio
    • show window
    • so-and-so
    • standing O
    • stereo
    • studio
    • tallyho
    • Taranto
    • TKO
    • Tokyo
    • touch-and-go
    • tournedos
    • tuckahoe
    • UFO
    • undergo
    • Veneto
    • vibrio
    • virago
    • zydeco
    • afterglow
    • alpenglow
    • art deco
    • audio
    • Bamako
    • bay window
    • bibelot
    • blow-by-blow
    • bone marrow
    • Borneo
    • Buffalo
    • bungalow
    • buteo
    • calico
    • cembalo
    • CEO
    • Clemenceau
    • comedo
    • counterflow
    • curaçao
    • curassow
    • danio
    • Diderot
    • domino
    • embryo
    • Erato
    • Eskimo
    • fabliau
    • French window
    • furbelow
    • go-no-go
    • grass widow
    • hammer throw
    • haricot
    • hetero
    • HMO
    • horror show
    • in a row
    • in the know
    • Jericho
    • latigo
    • long-ago
    • Maceió
    • Manchukuo
    • Mexico
    • modulo
    • Navajo
    • oleo
    • on tiptoe
    • overflow
    • overthrow
    • Pamlico
    • paseo
    • picaro
    • Pierrot
    • pompano
    • PPO
    • proximo
    • radio
    • ratio
    • Rochambeau
    • rodeo
    • rose window
    • saddlebow
    • sapsago
    • Scipio
    • semipro
    • sloppy joe
    • SRO
    • status quo
    • stop-and-go
    • subito
    • tangelo
    • tic-tac-toe
    • to-and-fro
    • tombolo
    • touraco
    • tremolo
    • tupelo
    • ultimo
    • undertow
    • vertigo
    • video
    • vireo
    4 syllables
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