How Many Syllables Are in Competes

The word Competes has three syllables: com-petes.
Syllable division helps in understanding the word's structure, improving both pronunciation and spelling.
This technique is especially useful for students and language learners who are mastering English phonetics.

Definition of Competes

To strive or try to do something better than someone else

How should Competes divide into syllables

The first syllable 'com' has one vowel 'o' and one consonant 'm'. The second syllable 'petes' has two vowels 'e' and 'e' and three consonants 'p', 't', and 's'.

Part of Speech - Competes

She competes in the spelling bee every year.

Sentences with Competes

• My brother competes in a lot of basketball games.
• I like to compete with my friends in running races.
• She competes with her classmates to get the highest grade.
• The football teams will compete against each other next week.
• The dancers will compete in a competition this weekend.
• He competes in a lot of video game tournaments.
• The chefs will compete in a cooking contest.
• She competes with her coworkers to sell the most products.
• The gymnasts will compete in the Olympics.
• The singers will compete for a recording contract.

Quotes with Competes

• The only person you should ever compete with is yourself.
• Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
• You don't have to be faster than the bear, you just have to be faster than the slowest person running from the bear.
• Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.
• If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
• The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.
• The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.
• The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.
• I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man!
• Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
• I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
• In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
• The only true disability in life is a bad attitude.
• The only time you should ever look back is to see how far you've come.
• Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
• If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: never lie to yourself.
• I am not a has-been. I am a will be.
• Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.
• Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Number of characters in Competes

8 ( c, o, m, p, e, t, e, s )

Unique letters in Competes

7 ( c, o, m, p, e, t, s )

Competes Backwards

setepmoc

How to Pronounce Competes

IPA (International): kʌˈmpi:ts

ARA (American): kʌˈmpits

EPA (English): kʌˈmpi:ts

KAH-MPIY-TS