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tennis

How many syllables in tennis?

  2 syllables

Divide tennis into syllables:   ten-nis
Stressed syllable in tennis:   ten-nis
How to pronounce tennis:   ten-is
How to say tennis:

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What rhymes with tennis

2 syllables
  • bennis
  • Denis
  • dentist's
  • denys
  • menace
  • Venice
  • benniseed
  • dennis
  • dentists
  • genus
  • tenace
3 syllables
  • duenas
    4 syllables
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