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priests

How many syllables in priests?

  1 syllable

Divide priests into syllables:   priests
Syllable stress:   priests
How to say priests:

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What rhymes with priests

1 syllable
  • beasts
  • cleese
  • feasts
  • gees
  • grease
  • lease
  • meece
  • niece
  • pease
  • Reese
  • speece
  • zees
  • cease
  • crease
  • fleece
  • geese
  • Greece
  • leese
  • meese
  • peace
  • piece
  • seis
  • yeast
2 syllables
  • apiece
  • bernice
  • cerise
  • cleethorpes
  • decrease
  • devries
  • Increase
  • obese
  • police
  • Tunis
  • beastship
  • caprice
  • clarice
  • decease
  • denise
  • Elise
  • Luis
  • patrice
  • release
  • yeas
4 syllables
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