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shear

How many syllables in shear?

  1 syllable

Divide shear into syllables:   shear
Syllable stress:   shear
How to pronounce shear:   sheer
How to say shear:

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Synonyms for shear


1 syllable
  • clip
  • mow
  • snip
  • cut
  • shave
  • trim
2 syllables
  • cut off
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    What rhymes with shear

    1 syllable
    • beer
    • bier
    • cere
    • clear
    • deer
    • drear
    • fear
    • fleer
    • gear
    • gere
    • here
    • kier
    • leer
    • mere
    • near
    • peer
    • queer
    • rear
    • sear
    • sheer
    • smear
    • spear
    • Speer
    • sphere
    • tear
    • tier
    • veer
    • wier
    • bere
    • blear
    • cheer
    • dear
    • Deere
    • ear
    • fere
    • frere
    • geer
    • hear
    • jeer
    • lear
    • mear
    • mir
    • neer
    • pier
    • queered
    • schmear
    • sere
    • skirr
    • sneer
    • speer
    • speir
    • steer
    • teer
    • Tyr
    • we're
    • year
    2 syllables
    • adhere
    • appear
    • bashir
    • cashier
    • emir
    • geerah
    • Lanier
    • premier
    • rehear
    • revere
    • severe
    • shearbill
    • smearcase
    • unclear
    • vizier
    • Zaire
    • amir
    • austere
    • career
    • deare
    • frontier
    • inhere
    • Meir
    • premiere
    • reindeer
    • Samir
    • shamir
    • sincere
    • teerer
    • veneer
    • wazir
    3 syllables
    4 syllables
    5 syllables
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