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waist

How many syllables in waist?

  1 syllable

Divide waist into syllables:   waist
Syllable stress:   waist
How to pronounce waist:   weyst
How to say waist:

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What rhymes with waist

1 syllable
  • aced
  • baste
  • cased
  • chaste
  • graced
  • laced
  • paste
  • raced
  • taste
  • wast
  • based
  • braced
  • chased
  • faced
  • haste
  • paced
  • placed
  • spaced
  • traced
  • waste
2 syllables
  • abased
  • defaced
  • displaced
  • embraced
  • erased
  • lambaste
  • misplaced
  • retraced
3 syllables
4 syllables
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