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light

How many syllables in light?

  1 syllable

Divide light into syllables:   light
Syllable stress:   light
How to pronounce light:   lite
How to say light:

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Synonyms for light


1 syllable
  • beam
  • bright
  • fresh
  • glow
  • pale
  • sparse
  • thin
  • blithe
  • fair
  • fun
  • lights
  • soft
  • strike
2 syllables
  • agile
  • brightness
  • carefree
  • dainty
  • easy
  • fluffy
  • gauzy
  • graceful
  • ignite
  • lantern
  • muted
  • nimble
  • pastel
  • scanty
  • slimming
  • sunbeams
  • sunny
  • wispy
  • airy
  • buoyant
  • cheerful
  • daylight
  • flimsy
  • frothy
  • gentle
  • happy
  • joyful
  • lightweight
  • neutral
  • noiseless
  • playful
  • simple
  • subtle
  • sunlit
  • weightless
3 syllables
  • amusing
  • effortless
  • featherlike
  • frivolous
  • illumine
  • set alight
  • start burning
4 syllables
5 syllables
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What rhymes with light

1 syllable
  • bight
  • blight
  • brite
  • byte's
  • dight
  • dwight
  • flight
  • height
  • kite
  • krait
  • lite
  • mite
  • nite
  • quite
  • rite
  • site
  • slight
  • spight
  • sprite
  • tight
  • twite
  • wight
  • wright
  • write
  • bite
  • bright
  • byte
  • cite
  • dite
  • fight
  • fright
  • hight
  • knight
  • kyte
  • might
  • night
  • plight
  • right
  • sight
  • sleight
  • smite
  • spite
  • streit
  • trite
  • white
  • wite
  • Wright
2 syllables
  • alight
  • aright
  • contrite
  • despite
  • enright
  • forthright
  • ignite
  • indict
  • invite
  • liteness
  • outright
  • recite
  • rewrite
  • tonights
  • upright
  • alright
  • blightbird
  • delight
  • dunite
  • excite
  • heighted
  • incite
  • indite
  • knightage
  • nonwhite
  • polite
  • reit
  • tonight
  • tonite
  • uptight
3 syllables
4 syllables
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