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tailgate

How many syllables in tailgate?

  2 syllables

Divide tailgate into syllables:   tail-gate
How to pronounce tailgate:   teyl-geyt
How to say tailgate:

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Synonyms for tailgate


1 syllable
  • stalk
  • track
2 syllables
  • rear door
4 syllables
  • follow closely
    5 syllables
    • be on the heels of
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      What rhymes with tailgate

      2 syllables
      • abate
      • adnate
      • age-mate
      • airdate
      • alate
      • await
      • baldpate
      • baseplate
      • bedplate
      • birthrate
      • bite plate
      • blind date
      • bookplate
      • casemate
      • caudate
      • cerate
      • checkmate
      • chordate
      • classmate
      • cognate
      • comate
      • connate
      • create
      • crenate
      • cut-rate
      • deflate
      • dentate
      • dictate
      • disrate
      • doorplate
      • drawplate
      • end plate
      • estate
      • falcate
      • filtrate
      • fishplate
      • flatmate
      • fluxgate
      • folate
      • frustrate
      • gestate
      • gyrate
      • hastate
      • Hell Gate
      • home plate
      • housemate
      • ice-skate
      • ingrate
      • innate
      • irate
      • khanate
      • lactate
      • legate
      • ligate
      • liquate
      • locate
      • lustrate
      • lyrate
      • makebate
      • mandate
      • migrate
      • mutate
      • narrate
      • Newgate
      • notate
      • oblate
      • orate
      • ovate
      • palpate
      • phonate
      • placate
      • playmate
      • portrait
      • predate
      • probate
      • pronate
      • prostate
      • pulsate
      • pupate
      • rain date
      • rebate
      • relate
      • roommate
      • rotate
      • schoolmate
      • sedate
      • septate
      • shipmate
      • slave state
      • soul mate
      • spicate
      • stagnate
      • stellate
      • sublate
      • sulcate
      • teammate
      • tenth-rate
      • testate
      • tinplate
      • toeplate
      • tractate
      • tristate
      • unweight
      • uprate
      • V-8
      • vallate
      • vibrate
      • vulgate
      • workmate
      • ablate
      • aerate
      • agnate
      • airfreight
      • arête
      • backdate
      • bandmate
      • bedmate
      • berate
      • bistate
      • blank slate
      • blue plate
      • breastplate
      • castrate
      • cell plate
      • cheapskate
      • chelate
      • citrate
      • clavate
      • collate
      • conflate
      • cordate
      • cremate
      • curate
      • debate
      • delate
      • derate
      • dilate
      • donate
      • downstate
      • elate
      • equate
      • faceplate
      • fellate
      • first-rate
      • fixate
      • floodgate
      • flyweight
      • formate
      • gelate
      • ground state
      • hamate
      • headgate
      • helpmate
      • hot plate
      • hydrate
      • inflate
      • inmate
      • instate
      • jailbait
      • Kuwait
      • lapse rate
      • liftgate
      • lightweight
      • lobate
      • lunate
      • lych-gate
      • magnate
      • makeweight
      • messmate
      • misstate
      • nameplate
      • negate
      • nitrate
      • nutate
      • of late
      • ornate
      • palmate
      • peltate
      • pinnate
      • playdate
      • plicate
      • postdate
      • prime rate
      • prolate
      • prorate
      • prostrate
      • punctate
      • quadrate
      • ramate
      • red-bait
      • restate
      • rostrate
      • saccate
      • seatmate
      • sensate
      • serrate
      • short weight
      • soleplate
      • spectate
      • squamate
      • stalemate
      • striate
      • substrate
      • summate
      • Tebet
      • terneplate
      • third-rate
      • to date
      • tollgate
      • translate
      • truncate
      • update
      • upstate
      • vacate
      • valvate
      • virgate
      • whitebait
      3 syllables
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