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tense

How many syllables in tense?

  437186592 syllable

Divide tense into syllables:   tense
Syllable stress:   tense
How to pronounce tense:   tens
How to say tense:

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Synonyms for tense


1 syllable
  • drawn
  • taut
  • strained
  • tight
2 syllables
  • edgy
  • jumpy
  • stressful
  • uptight
3 syllables
4 syllables
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    What rhymes with tense

    1 syllable
    • cense
    • dense
    • flense
    • mense
    • pense
    • Spence
    • thence
    • cents
    • fence
    • hence
    • pence
    • sense
    • spence
    • whence
    2 syllables
    • censer
    • commence
    • defence
    • defensed
    • denser
    • expense
    • fences
    • immense
    • intense
    • pretense
    • Spencer
    • suspense
    • censor
    • condense
    • defense
    • denseless
    • dispense
    • fencer
    • Ferenc
    • incense
    • offense
    • sensor
    • Spenser
    3 syllables
    4 syllables
    5 syllables
      6 syllables
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