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pretense

How many syllables in pretense?

  2 syllables

Divide pretense into syllables:   pre-tense
Stressed syllable in pretense:   pre-tense
How to say pretense:

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Synonyms for pretense


1 syllable
  • act
  • bluff
  • fib
  • airs
  • cloak
  • sham
2 syllables
  • charade
  • facade
  • veneer
  • deceit
  • posing
3 syllables
4 syllables
5 syllables
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    What rhymes with pretense

    1 syllable
    • cents
    • fence
    • pence
    • sense
    • tense
    • whence
    • dense
    • hence
    • pense
    • Spence
    • thence
    2 syllables
    • commence
    • defence
    • defensed
    • dispense
    • Ferenc
    • immense
    • intense
    • offense
    • sequence
    • suspense
    3 syllables
    4 syllables
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