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shearing

How many syllables in shearing?

  2 syllables

Divide shearing into syllables:   shear-ing
Stressed syllable in shearing:   shear-ing
How to pronounce shearing:   sheer-ing
How to say shearing:

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What rhymes with shearing

2 syllables
  • cheering
  • Deering
  • fearing
  • hearing
  • rearing
  • smearing
  • sneering
  • spearlike
  • tearing
  • clearing
  • earring
  • gearing
  • nearing
  • searing
  • smearless
  • spearing
  • steering
  • veering
3 syllables
4 syllables
6 syllables
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