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relying

How many syllables in relying?

  3 syllables

Divide relying into syllables:   re-ly-ing
How to say relying:

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What rhymes with relying

2 syllables
  • buying
  • drying
  • dying
  • eying
  • frying
  • lying
  • prying
  • sighing
  • tieing
  • tying
  • crying
  • dyeing
  • eyeing
  • flying
  • guying
  • plying
  • shying
  • spying
  • trying
3 syllables
4 syllables
5 syllables
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