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tough

How many syllables in tough?

  134982567 syllable

Divide tough into syllables:   tough
Syllable stress:   tough
How to pronounce tough:   tuhf
How to say tough:

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Synonyms for tough


1 syllable
  • game
  • rough
  • stout
  • tight
  • hard
  • scoured
  • Strong
2 syllables
  • brutish
  • chewy
  • doughty
  • gristly
  • knotty
  • rugged
  • streetwise
  • sturdy
  • testing
  • toughened
  • wiry
  • bully
  • complex
  • fibrous
  • hardy
  • rocky
  • steely
  • stringy
  • taxing
  • thorny
  • weathered
3 syllables
4 syllables
5 syllables
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What rhymes with tough

1 syllable
  • bluff
  • buff
  • buffs
  • chuff
  • cuff
  • cuffs
  • fluff
  • gruff
  • hough
  • huffs
  • muff
  • pluff
  • puffs
  • ruff
  • scuff
  • slough
  • snuff
  • sough
  • stuffs
  • bluffs
  • buff's
  • chough
  • cluff
  • cuff's
  • duff
  • fluffs
  • guff
  • huff
  • luff
  • muffs
  • puff
  • rough
  • scruff
  • shuff
  • sloughs
  • snuffs
  • stuff
  • tuff
2 syllables
  • buffware
  • enough
  • rebuffs
  • cluing
  • rebuff
  • snuffy
3 syllables
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