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pursuing

How many syllables in pursuing?

  3 syllables

Divide pursuing into syllables:   pur-su-ing
How to say pursuing:

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What rhymes with pursuing

2 syllables
  • bluing
  • booing
  • brewing
  • cooing
  • doing
  • gluing
  • lewing
  • screwing
  • spewing
  • suing
  • bluings
  • boojum
  • chewing
  • dewing
  • Ewing
  • hewing
  • queuing
  • skewing
  • stewing
  • viewing
3 syllables
4 syllables
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