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retrieving

How many syllables in retrieving?

  3 syllables

Divide retrieving into syllables:   re-triev-ing
How to say retrieving:

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What rhymes with retrieving

2 syllables
  • grieving
  • leaving
  • heaving
  • thieving
3 syllables
4 syllables
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