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sixteen

How many syllables in sixteen?

  368547921 syllables

Divide sixteen into syllables:   six-teen
Primary syllable stress:   six-teen
Secondary syllable stress:   six-teen
How to pronounce sixteen:   six-teen
How to say sixteen:

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What rhymes with sixteen

1 syllable
  • bean
  • clean
  • freen
  • gene
  • green
  • haen
  • jeanne
  • keen
  • lenes
  • mean
  • mien
  • peine
  • preen
  • scene
  • seen
  • skeen
  • Steen
  • wean
  • bein
  • dean
  • gean
  • glean
  • Greene
  • Jean
  • Kean
  • lean
  • lien
  • mein
  • nein
  • plein
  • Queen
  • screen
  • sheen
  • spleen
  • teen
2 syllables
  • agin
  • ameen
  • Andine
  • baleen
  • Benin
  • benzine
  • between
  • black bean
  • bovine
  • buckbean
  • canteen
  • careen
  • celine
  • chlorine
  • chorine
  • citrine
  • colleen
  • corinne
  • cotquean
  • dasheen
  • demean
  • doreen
  • dudeen
  • eighteen
  • Essene
  • fanzine
  • Feldene
  • flavine
  • foreseen
  • gamine
  • glassine
  • Hellene
  • houseclean
  • janine
  • Joaquin
  • khamsin
  • Ladin
  • latrine
  • lean-to
  • limine
  • machine
  • marine
  • Maureen
  • meine
  • moreen
  • mung bean
  • naphthene
  • Nicene
  • nongreen
  • offscreen
  • onscreen
  • Pauline
  • poteen
  • preteen
  • propine
  • Rabin
  • ratteen
  • red bean
  • routine
  • saline
  • Salween
  • sardined
  • scalene
  • shagreen
  • shebeen
  • Sistine
  • Slovene
  • soybean
  • string bean
  • subteen
  • Szczecin
  • takin
  • terrene
  • thirteen
  • tontine
  • tureen
  • unclean
  • unseen
  • vitrine
  • white bean
  • yestreen
  • aileen
  • amin
  • arene
  • beguine
  • benzene
  • Bernstein
  • bien
  • boreen
  • broad bean
  • caffeine
  • carbine
  • casein
  • charlene
  • chopine
  • christine
  • codeine
  • convene
  • cortine
  • cuisine
  • dauphine
  • demesne
  • dry-clean
  • e-zine
  • eileen
  • Eugene
  • fascine
  • fifteen
  • fluorine
  • fourteen
  • gangrene
  • gyrene
  • horsebean
  • Irene
  • jeanine
  • Kathleen
  • killeen
  • lateen
  • latrine's
  • lene
  • Lublin
  • malines
  • martine
  • meindre
  • moline
  • morphine
  • nankeen
  • nene
  • nineteen
  • obscene
  • on-screen
  • patine
  • piscine
  • praline
  • pristine
  • protein
  • Racine
  • ravine
  • reen
  • Sabine
  • saltine
  • sardine
  • sateen
  • serene
  • shaheen
  • siren
  • skene
  • snap bean
  • spalpeen
  • strychnine
  • sunscreen
  • tacrine
  • taurine
  • terrine
  • Tolkien
  • treen
  • umpteen
  • undine
  • vaccine
  • wax bean
  • windscreen
  • zechin
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