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sailing

How many syllables in sailing?

  2 syllables

Divide sailing into syllables:   sail-ing
Stressed syllable in sailing:   sail-ing
How to pronounce sailing:   sey-ling
How to say sailing:

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Synonyms for sailing


2 syllables
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    3 syllables
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      What rhymes with sailing

      1 syllable
      • aillt
        2 syllables
        • ailing
        • baling
        • flailing
        • hailing
        • jailing
        • nailing
        • railing
        • tailing
        • veiling
        • whaling
        • bailing
        • failing
        • grayling
        • hailproof
        • mailing
        • paling
        • scaling
        • trailing
        • wailing
        3 syllables
        4 syllables
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