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onion

How many syllables in onion?

  219875634 syllables

Divide onion into syllables:   on-ion
Stressed syllable in onion:   on-ion
How to pronounce onion:   on-yon
How to say onion:

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What rhymes with onion

2 syllables
  • bunion
  • grunion
  • runnion
  • Bunyan
  • ronyon
  • trunnion
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