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want

How many syllables in want?

  1 syllable

Divide want into syllables:   want
Syllable stress:   want
How to say want:

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Synonyms for want


1 syllable
  • aim
  • crave
  • lack
  • mean
  • plan
  • will
  • choose
  • dearth
  • like
  • need
  • please
  • wish
2 syllables
  • absence
  • care for
  • demand
  • famine
  • feel like
  • hunger
  • require
  • would like
  • aspire
  • covet
  • desire
  • fancy
  • hanker
  • intend
  • wish for
  • yearn for
3 syllables
  • be after
  • poverty
4 syllables
  • be looking for
  • hanker after
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What rhymes with want

1 syllable
  • aunt
  • brunt
  • can't
  • flaunt
  • font
  • gaunt
  • haunt
  • hunt
  • Lunt
  • runt
  • strunt
  • taunt
  • vaunt
  • blunt
  • bunt
  • daunt
  • flaunts
  • front
  • grunt
  • haunts
  • jaunt
  • punt
  • shunt
  • stunt
  • taunts
  • wont
2 syllables
  • Fanta
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