puerile

How many syllables in puerile?

  3 syllables

Divide puerile into syllables:   pu-er-ile
Stressed syllable in puerile:   pu-er-ile
How to say puerile:

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Synonyms for puerile


2 syllables
  • childish
  • silly
  • jejune
  • trifling
3 syllables
  • babyish
  • immature
  • trivial
4 syllables
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    What rhymes with puerile

    1 syllable
    • Beal
    • cele
    • deal
    • feel
    • gilles
    • heal
    • keel
    • kiel
    • leal
    • mele
    • neel
    • peal
    • Peele
    • seal
    • she'll
    • skeel
    • squeal
    • steel
    • teal
    • veal
    • Weil
    • zeal
    • Beall
    • creel
    • eel
    • feil
    • he'll
    • heel
    • keele
    • kneel
    • meal
    • Neal
    • Neil
    • peel
    • reel
    • seel
    • shiel
    • spiel
    • steal
    • Steele
    • teel
    • we'll
    • wheel
    2 syllables
    • abele
    • air mile
    • appeal
    • Blue Nile
    • Camille
    • conceal
    • decile
    • Emil
    • erstwhile
    • fiel
    • gentile
    • hostile
    • lucille
    • motile
    • neela
    • O'Neill
    • Old Style
    • oneill
    • profile
    • repeal
    • reseal
    • Riel
    • stockpile
    • unseal
    • abseil
    • anneal
    • black bile
    • Brasil
    • cecile
    • congeal
    • diel
    • Emile
    • exile
    • genteel
    • high style
    • lifestyle
    • meanwhile
    • nail file
    • New Style
    • old style
    • on file
    • ordeal
    • real
    • reptile
    • reveal
    • Scheele
    • teelseed
    3 syllables
    • Adriel
    • corneal
    • ideal
    • reelable
    • surreal
    • unreal
    • bass viol
    • Fair Isle
    • redial
    • show trial
    • time trial
    4 syllables
    6 syllables
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