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scold

How many syllables in scold?

  1 syllable

Divide scold into syllables:   scold
Syllable stress:   scold
How to pronounce scold:   skohld
How to say scold:

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Synonyms for scold


1 syllable
  • chide
    2 syllables
    • berate
    • harangue
    • rebuke
    • reprove
    • tick off
    • yell at
    • chew out
    • lecture
    • reproach
    • tell off
    • upbraid
    3 syllables
    5 syllables
    • haul over the coals
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      What rhymes with scold

      1 syllable
      • bold
      • cold
      • fold
      • hold
      • mold
      • nold
      • poled
      • rolled
      • soled
      • strolled
      • tolled
      • wold
      • bowled
      • doled
      • gold
      • holed
      • mould
      • old
      • polled
      • sold
      • souled
      • told
      • wol
      2 syllables
      • ahold
      • cajoled
      • controlled
      • enrolled
      • foretold
      • holeless
      • outsold
      • patrolled
      • resold
      • twofold
      • unsold
      • uphold
      • behold
      • consoled
      • enfold
      • extolled
      • fourfold
      • Nolde
      • paroled
      • remold
      • Roald
      • unfold
      • untold
      • withhold
      3 syllables
      4 syllables
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