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mean

How many syllables in mean?

  1 syllable

Divide mean into syllables:   mean
Syllable stress:   mean
How to pronounce mean:   meen
How to say mean:

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Synonyms for mean


1 syllable
  • aim
  • mid
  • plan
  • snide
  • spell
  • wish
  • cheap
  • norm
  • poor
  • spare
  • want
2 syllables
  • callous
  • cruel
  • design
  • humble
  • intend
  • lead to
  • lowly
  • midpoint
  • normal
  • petty
  • presage
  • purport
  • shabby
  • shoddy
  • squalid
  • standard
  • suggest
  • wretched
  • connote
  • denote
  • entail
  • imply
  • involve
  • lowdown
  • middle
  • nasty
  • paltry
  • portend
  • propose
  • require
  • shameful
  • spiteful
  • stand for
  • stingy
  • unkind
3 syllables
4 syllables
5 syllables
  • be thinking about
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What rhymes with mean

1 syllable
  • bean
  • clean
  • dene
  • gean
  • glean
  • Greene
  • Jean
  • jeanne
  • keen
  • lenes
  • mein
  • mien
  • peen
  • plein
  • Queen
  • scene
  • seen
  • skeen
  • spleen
  • teen
  • wean
  • wheen
  • bein
  • dean
  • freen
  • gene
  • green
  • haen
  • jean
  • Kean
  • lean
  • lien
  • mesne
  • nein
  • peine
  • preen
  • queen
  • screen
  • sheen
  • spean
  • Steen
  • tween
  • ween
  • yean
2 syllables
  • agin
  • ameen
  • baleen
  • between
  • caffeine
  • careen
  • celine
  • christine
  • colleen
  • corinne
  • cuisine
  • doreen
  • eighteen
  • Eugene
  • fifteen
  • fourteen
  • janine
  • Joaquin
  • killeen
  • latrine's
  • lene
  • machine
  • martine
  • meindre
  • moline
  • nene
  • obscene
  • Pauline
  • Racine
  • reen
  • Sabine
  • sardine
  • serene
  • Sistine
  • skene
  • sunscreen
  • treen
  • unclean
  • vaccine
  • aileen
  • amin
  • benzene
  • bien
  • canteen
  • casein
  • charlene
  • citrine
  • convene
  • cortine
  • demean
  • e'en
  • eileen
  • Feldene
  • foreseen
  • Irene
  • jeanine
  • Kathleen
  • latrine
  • lean-to
  • limine
  • marine
  • Maureen
  • meine
  • moreen
  • nineteen
  • onscreen
  • preteen
  • ravine
  • routine
  • saline
  • sardined
  • shaheen
  • sixteen
  • Slovene
  • thirteen
  • umpteen
  • unseen
3 syllables
4 syllables
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