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wax

How many syllables in wax?

  1 syllable

Divide wax into syllables:   wax
Syllable stress:   wax
How to pronounce wax:   waks
How to say wax:

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Synonyms for wax


1 syllable
  • buff
  • shine
  • grow
  • swell
2 syllables
  • burnish
  • expand
  • polish
  • enlarge
  • increase
3 syllables
  • get bigger
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    What rhymes with wax

    1 syllable
    • acts
    • axe
    • blacks
    • facts
    • fax's
    • hacks
    • Jaques
    • lacks
    • macks
    • Max
    • packs
    • pacts
    • plaques
    • racks
    • sacks
    • sax
    • Sfax
    • slacks
    • snacks
    • tacks
    • tracks
    • whacks
    • ax
    • backs
    • cracks
    • fax
    • flax
    • jacks
    • knacks
    • lax
    • macs
    • max
    • pacs
    • pax
    • quacks
    • rax
    • sacs
    • Saxe
    • shacks
    • smacks
    • stacks
    • tax
    • wacks
    • zack
    2 syllables
    • attacks
    • knick-knacks
    • pretax
    • shacky
    • taxi
    • impacts
    • maxi
    • relax
    • taxa
    3 syllables
    • antitax
      4 syllables
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