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postpone

How many syllables in postpone?

  2 syllables

Divide postpone into syllables:   post-pone
Stressed syllable in postpone:   post-pone
How to say postpone:

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Synonyms for postpone


1 syllable
  • stay
    2 syllables
    • adjourn
    • delay
    • suspend
    • defer
    • extend
    • table
    3 syllables
      4 syllables
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        What rhymes with postpone

        1 syllable
        • blown
        • bown
        • clone
        • cone
        • don't
        • drone's
        • fone
        • grown
        • Joan
        • loan
        • moan
        • mone
        • phone
        • Rhone
        • roans
        • schone
        • sewn
        • shown
        • Sloane
        • sown
        • stone
        • throne
        • tone
        • bone
        • bowne
        • Cohn
        • crone
        • drone
        • flown
        • groan
        • hone
        • known
        • lone
        • Mon
        • own
        • prone
        • roan
        • rone
        • scone
        • shone
        • sloan
        • slone
        • sowne
        • thone
        • thrown
        • trone
        2 syllables
        3 syllables
        4 syllables
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