1 syllable:
ate, aydt, bait, bate, beit, cate, chait,
crate, date, eight, fait, fate, feight, fete,
frate, freight, gait, gate, grate, great,
haight, hait, kate, late, leight, mate,
nate, pait, pate, plate , rait, raitt, rate,
sate, skate, slate, spate, speight, state,
straight, strait, strate , streight, tait,
taite, taitt, tate, trait, wait, waite, waitt,
wayt, weight
2 syllables:
abate, and gate, au fait, await, bank
rate, baud rate, bay state, belate,
berate, birth rate, blind date, change
state, charge plate, clean slate, coate,
collate, conflate, create, crime rate, cut
rate, debate, deflate, dictate, dilate,
dose rate, duck pate, due date, elate,
equate, est, estate, first mate, first
state, flow rate, free state, freight rate,
gem state, gold plate, gray skate,
ground bait, growth rate, head gate,
heart rate, home plate, hot plate, ice
skate, inflate, innate, irate, iwate,
kuwait, lightweight, lose weight, m-8,
mccreight, mcfate, misstate, negate,
not late, oblate, of late, ornate, or gate,
pay rate, peach state, poor rate,
postdate, predate, prorate, rain date,
reflate, relate, restate, sash weight,
sedate, slave state , sleep late, soul
mate, soup plate, speed skate,
stagflate, steel plate, sumgait, tail gate,
tax rate, tin plate, to date, translate,
tri- state, troy weight, update, upstate,
wall plate
3 syllables:
armor plate, armour plate, badger
state, balkan state, baltic state, bargain
rate, beaver state, beehive state,
bering strait, bluegrass state , body
weight, buckeye state, buffer state,
change of state, charles the great,
chief of state, chinese date, city state,
conjugate, cover plate, data rate,
desecrate, dessert plate , diamond
state, dinner plate, discount rate,
disinflate, exchange rate, fashion plate,
figure eight, figure skate, finger plate,
first estate, fourth estate, garden state,
golden gate, golden state, gopher
state, granite state, great lakes state,
gross estate, hawkeye state , head of
state, hoosier state , id est, interest
rate, interstate, intrastate, keystone
state, license plate, lie in wait, life
estate, line of fate, little skate, mental
state, mormon state, mountain state,
multistate, net estate, new york state,
north star state , nutmeg state , ocean
state, old line state, old north state,
overrate, overweight, payment rate,
piece of eight, pine tree state , police
state, prairie state, procreate, quarter
plate, real estate, recreate, reinstate,
rider plate, roller skate, running mate,
sagebrush state, salad plate, sandwich
plate, section eight, show me state,
silverplate, silver plate , silver state,
solid-state , sooner state, sparring
mate, spin the plate, starting gate,
sunshine state, tar heel state, telerate,
third estate, thorny skate, threshold
gate, treasure state, underrate, water
gate, welfare state , wicket gate
4 syllables:
absentee rate, aloha state, atomic
weight, attrition rate, at any rate,
australian state, battle born state,
cognitive state, collection plate,
combining weight, coyote state ,
demodulate, ecstatic state, empire
state, evergreen state, excursion rate,
figure of eight, frederick the great,
grand canyon state , green mountain
state, herod the great, inflation rate ,
installment rate , interrelate, irish free
state, junior lightweight, korean strait,
korea strait, landed estate, louis the
great, lying in wait, magnolia state,
mount rushmore state, natural state,
palmetto state, peace garden state,
pelican state, pompey the great, prime
interest rate, public debate,
recriminate, remunerate, repayment
rate, reporting weight, second estate,
sunflower state, turnover rate, vacancy
rate, volunteer state, wolverine state
5 syllables:
american state , atmospheric state, at
an equal rate, catherine the great,
centennial state, constitution state,
department of state, emotional state,
equality state, equivalent weight,
exercising weight, fertility rate, gregory
the great, maturity date, metabolic
rate, mithridates the great, molecular
weight, mortality rate, occupancy rate,
old dominion state, personal estate,
photographic plate, temporary state,
unemployment rate