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reprieve

How many syllables in reprieve?

  2 syllables

Divide reprieve into syllables:   re-prieve
Stressed syllable in reprieve:   re-prieve
How to pronounce reprieve:   ri-preev
How to say reprieve:

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Synonyms for reprieve


2 syllables
  • acquit
  • pardon
  • let off
  • respite
3 syllables
  • amnesty
5 syllables
  • official pardon
    6 syllables
    • stay of execution
      8 syllables
      • grant a stay of execution
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        What rhymes with reprieve

        1 syllable
        • breve
        • cleave
        • eave
        • gleave
        • greaved
        • grieve
        • leave
        • naeve
        • peeve's
        • reeve
        • shrend
        • Steve
        • we've
        • breves
        • cleve
        • eve
        • greave
        • greve
        • heave
        • leve
        • peeve
        • reave
        • shreeve
        • sleeve
        • vive
        • weave
        2 syllables
        • achieve
        • aleve
        • bereave
        • conceive
        • French leave
        • Geneve
        • inweave
        • motive
        • neve
        • pet peeve
        • qui vive
        • reaved
        • relieve
        • shirtsleeve
        • sick leave
        • unweave
        3 syllables
        4 syllables
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