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recoil

How many syllables in recoil?

  2 syllables

Divide recoil into syllables:   re-coil
Stressed syllable in recoil:   re-coil
How to say recoil:

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Synonyms for recoil


1 syllable
  • balk
  • cringe
  • jump
  • start
  • blench
  • flinch
  • quail
  • wince
2 syllables
  • cower
  • jump back
  • react
  • retreat
  • shrinking
3 syllables
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What rhymes with recoil

1 syllable
  • boil
  • broil
  • foil
  • moyl
  • oil
  • soil
  • toil
  • Boyle
  • coil
  • Hoyle
  • moyle
  • roil
  • spoil
2 syllables
  • Doyle
  • lukoil
  • embroil
3 syllables
  • oleoyl
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