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shirtwaist

How many syllables in shirtwaist?

  2 syllables

Divide shirtwaist into syllables:   shirt-waist
How to pronounce shirtwaist:   shurt-weyst
How to say shirtwaist:

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What rhymes with shirtwaist

2 syllables
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