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mayday

How many syllables in mayday?

  2 syllables

Divide mayday into syllables:   may-day
How to pronounce mayday:   mey-dey
How to say mayday:

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What rhymes with mayday

1 syllable
  • cube
  • Ewe
  • Kobe
  • meze
  • PK
  • DA
  • frieze
  • lwei
  • PA
  • quale
2 syllables
  • abbé
  • agley
  • airway
  • allay
  • Angers
  • archway
  • ashtray
  • astray
  • away
  • backstay
  • base pay
  • beignet
  • beltway
  • beret
  • bewray
  • bikeway
  • Biscay
  • blasé
  • Bombay
  • bouchée
  • boule
  • Bourget
  • Bouvet
  • Broadway
  • byplay
  • cachet
  • cahier
  • Cathay
  • chaîné
  • chambray
  • child's play
  • cliché
  • congé
  • Corday
  • coudé
  • crawlway
  • croquet
  • curé
  • D-day
  • decay
  • defray
  • dengue
  • display
  • DJ
  • doomsday
  • downplay
  • driveway
  • Earl Grey
  • épée
  • estray
  • fairway
  • filet
  • fireclay
  • flambé
  • floodway
  • folkway
  • foray
  • forebay
  • forestay
  • forte
  • foul play
  • four-way
  • foyer
  • frappé
  • Friday
  • gainsay
  • gamay
  • gateway
  • give way
  • godet
  • Green Bay
  • guideway
  • hair spray
  • hallway
  • harm's way
  • headway
  • Hebei
  • heyday
  • hold sway
  • horseplay
  • in play
  • inlay
  • Islay
  • jackstay
  • jennet
  • Jetway
  • koine
  • lamé
  • leeway
  • Lomé
  • lycée
  • maguey
  • make hay
  • malgré
  • Mande
  • manqué
  • massé
  • maté
  • Medway
  • midday
  • Midway
  • Millet
  • misplay
  • Monday
  • Mornay
  • Niamey
  • noonday
  • nosegay
  • OK
  • ombré
  • osprey
  • outlay
  • outstay
  • oyez
  • parkway
  • parquet
  • passé
  • pathway
  • payday
  • per se
  • pipe clay
  • piquet
  • plié
  • pommée
  • portray
  • projet
  • puree
  • Quesnay
  • Rahway
  • rappee
  • relay
  • replay
  • roadway
  • role-play
  • rosé
  • Roubaix
  • runway
  • saint's day
  • sansei
  • sauté
  • scrub jay
  • shar-pei
  • shipway
  • sick bay
  • sick pay
  • skyway
  • slipway
  • soigné
  • someday
  • soothsay
  • speedway
  • squeeze play
  • sternway
  • straightway
  • stroke play
  • Sunday
  • sweet bay
  • tea tray
  • thoughtway
  • Thursday
  • today
  • tollway
  • touché
  • trackway
  • Tuesday
  • two-way
  • unsay
  • valet
  • vide
  • Vouvray
  • waylay
  • weekday
  • windway
  • wordplay
  • affray
  • airplay
  • all-day
  • allée
  • Anhui
  • array
  • assay
  • Augier
  • aweigh
  • ballet
  • bat ray
  • belay
  • benday
  • betray
  • bidet
  • birthday
  • Bizet
  • bobstay
  • Bossuet
  • bouclé
  • bouquet
  • bourrée
  • breezeway
  • buffet
  • byway
  • café
  • Cambay
  • causeway
  • chalet
  • chassé
  • ciré
  • co-pay
  • convey
  • corvée
  • coupé
  • crochet
  • crossway
  • cy pres
  • daresay
  • deejay
  • delay
  • dismay
  • distrait
  • donnée
  • doorway
  • dragée
  • duvet
  • embay
  • essay
  • fair play
  • filé
  • fillet
  • fishway
  • flight pay
  • flyway
  • footway
  • force play
  • foreplay
  • formée
  • fouetté
  • Fouquet
  • fourchée
  • franglais
  • freeway
  • fumet
  • Galway
  • gangway
  • gelée
  • glacé
  • gourmet
  • greenway
  • gunplay
  • halfway
  • Hannay
  • hatchway
  • hearsay
  • Hefei
  • highway
  • hooray
  • Hubei
  • in re
  • inveigh
  • issei
  • James Bay
  • jeté
  • keyway
  • kouprey
  • lay day
  • lifeway
  • Lord's day
  • M-day
  • mainstay
  • Malay
  • man-day
  • Manet
  • margay
  • match play
  • May Day
  • melee
  • midway
  • Millay
  • mislay
  • moiré
  • Monet
  • name day
  • nisei
  • Norway
  • obey
  • olé
  • one-way
  • Otway
  • outré
  • outweigh
  • parfait
  • parlay
  • partway
  • pâté
  • pavé
  • pearl gray
  • pince-nez
  • piqué
  • pith ray
  • plissé
  • Pompeii
  • prepay
  • pulque
  • purvey
  • raceway
  • railway
  • red bay
  • repay
  • risqué
  • Roget
  • ropeway
  • rosebay
  • roué
  • sachet
  • Salé
  • sashay
  • screenplay
  • seaway
  • Shark Bay
  • short-day
  • sick day
  • sideway
  • slideway
  • sluiceway
  • soiree
  • someway
  • soufflé
  • spillway
  • stairway
  • stingray
  • strathspey
  • subway
  • survey
  • swordplay
  • tempeh
  • thruway
  • tideway
  • Tokay
  • Torbay
  • toupee
  • tramway
  • Twelfth Day
  • unlay
  • V-day
  • veejay
  • visé
  • walkway
  • Wednesday
  • white way
  • wood ray
  • workday
3 syllables
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