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provoking

How many syllables in provoking?

  3 syllables

Divide provoking into syllables:   pro-vok-ing
Stressed syllable in provoking:   pro-vok-ing
How to pronounce provoking:   pruh-voh-king
How to say provoking:

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        What rhymes with provoking

        2 syllables
        • broking
        • cloaking
        • croaking
        • smoking
        • stoking
        • choking
        • coking
        • poking
        • soaking
        3 syllables
        • evoking
        • revoking
        4 syllables
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