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tensile

How many syllables in tensile?

  2 syllables

Divide tensile into syllables:   ten-sile
Stressed syllable in tensile:   ten-sile
How to say tensile:

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What rhymes with tensile

2 syllables
  • bensel
  • stencil
  • pencil
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