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rocking

How many syllables in rocking?

  2 syllables

Divide rocking into syllables:   rock-ing
Stressed syllable in rocking:   rock-ing
How to say rocking:

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What rhymes with rocking

2 syllables
  • blocking
  • docking
  • Hocking
  • locking
  • shocking
  • stocking
  • cocking
  • flocking
  • knocking
  • mocking
  • socking
3 syllables
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