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proposing

How many syllables in proposing?

  3 syllables

Divide proposing into syllables:   pro-pos-ing
How to say proposing:

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What rhymes with proposing

2 syllables
  • closing
  • hosing
  • posing
  • dozing
  • nosing
  • rosing
3 syllables
4 syllables
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