staying

How many syllables in staying?

  2 syllables

Divide staying into syllables:   stay-ing
How to say staying:

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What rhymes with staying

2 syllables
  • baying
  • frayings
  • haying
  • paying
  • praying
  • saying
  • slayings
  • straying
  • swaying
  • fraying
  • graying
  • laying
  • playing
  • preying
  • slaying
  • spraying
  • strayling
  • weighin
3 syllables
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