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sterile

How many syllables in sterile?

  2 syllables

Divide sterile into syllables:   ster-ile
Stressed syllable in sterile:   ster-ile
How to say sterile:

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Synonyms for sterile


1 syllable
  • clean
    2 syllables
    • arid
    • childless
    • barren
    • fallow
    3 syllables
    4 syllables
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    What rhymes with sterile

    1 syllable
      2 syllables
      • barrel
      • burel
      • carole
      • caryl
      • cheryl
      • Darryl
      • erron
      • feral
      • ferule
      • peril
      • terrel
      • beryl
      • carol
      • Carroll
      • ceryl
      • darrell
      • errol
      • farrel
      • ferrule
      • Merrill
      • terral
      • Terrell
      3 syllables
      • apparel
      • imperil
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