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cocking

How many syllables in cocking?

  2 syllables

Divide cocking into syllables:   cock-ing
Stressed syllable in cocking:   cock-ing
How to say cocking:

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What rhymes with cocking

2 syllables
  • docking
  • Hocking
  • locking
  • rocking
  • socking
3 syllables
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