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scalene

How many syllables in scalene?

  2 syllables

Divide scalene into syllables:   sca-lene
Stressed syllable in scalene:   sca-lene
How to pronounce scalene:   skey-leen
How to say scalene:

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What rhymes with scalene

2 syllables
  • Andine
  • baleen
  • Benin
  • benzine
  • between
  • boreen
  • broad bean
  • caffeine
  • carbine
  • chlorine
  • chorine
  • codeine
  • convene
  • cuisine
  • dauphine
  • demesne
  • dudeen
  • eighteen
  • fanzine
  • fifteen
  • fluorine
  • gamine
  • glassine
  • Hellene
  • houseclean
  • Ladin
  • latrine
  • machine
  • marine
  • moreen
  • mung bean
  • naphthene
  • nineteen
  • obscene
  • on-screen
  • piscine
  • praline
  • pristine
  • protein
  • ratteen
  • red bean
  • saline
  • Salween
  • sateen
  • shagreen
  • siren
  • sixteen
  • snap bean
  • spalpeen
  • strychnine
  • sunscreen
  • tacrine
  • taurine
  • terrine
  • Tolkien
  • tureen
  • unclean
  • unseen
  • vitrine
  • white bean
  • yestreen
  • arene
  • beguine
  • benzene
  • Bernstein
  • black bean
  • bovine
  • buckbean
  • canteen
  • careen
  • chopine
  • citrine
  • colleen
  • cotquean
  • dasheen
  • demean
  • dry-clean
  • e-zine
  • Essene
  • fascine
  • flavine
  • fourteen
  • gangrene
  • gyrene
  • horsebean
  • khamsin
  • lateen
  • Lublin
  • malines
  • moline
  • morphine
  • nankeen
  • Nicene
  • nongreen
  • offscreen
  • patine
  • poteen
  • preteen
  • propine
  • Rabin
  • ravine
  • routine
  • saltine
  • sardine
  • serene
  • shebeen
  • Sistine
  • Slovene
  • soybean
  • string bean
  • subteen
  • Szczecin
  • takin
  • terrene
  • thirteen
  • tontine
  • umpteen
  • undine
  • vaccine
  • wax bean
  • windscreen
  • zechin
3 syllables
  • hoatzin
  • Yibin
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