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Rhymes Here is a list of the words that rhyme with the word brighten.This is ordered by best match. Changing color means the start of the next best set of words.
3 syllable words
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2 syllable words

alan

amman

auden

bacon

baron

barren

basin

bason

bayman

beacon

bitten

blacken

bobbin

bollen

bracken

brazen

breton

briton

broaden

burton

cabin

caisson

canaan

cannon

canon

cayman

certain

chasten

cheapen

common

cousin

craven

crouton

curtain

dagan

dagon

daman

deacon

deepen

demon

dozen

dragon

eden

elan

fallen

famine

fasten

floren

foreign

freeman

gallon

gammon

garron

gladden

gluten

graven

happen

hasten

hausen

haven

hoten

jason

jetton

kalan

kitten

laden

lagan

layman

leman

leven

locken

loren

madden

maiden

mason

mitten

moisten

muffin

mullen

often

oven

pagan

pavon

poison

pollan

pollen

raven

reason

rerun

robin

rosin

sadden

salmon

seaman

season

semen

shaken

shaman

slacken

smitten

sodden

soften

steven

sudden

sullen

summon

taken

talon

tappen

thousand

threaten

toughen

treason

trodden

wagon

waken

warren

weaken

written

yaupon

zaman

othman

cowan

gowan

paean

peon

rayon

ashen

asian

bludgeon

cajun

caution

dudgeon

earthen

fashion

grecian

gudgeon

haitian

heathen

legion

lesion

mahone

nation

passion

prussian

ration

region

russian

station

suasion

capstan

caxton

doctrine

scotsman

statesman

yachtsman

dustman

portman

alban

alman

apron

arson

aspen

bagman

banyan

bargain

boatman

brakeman

calvin

canyon

carbon

carman

carmine

chaplain

chapman

citron

classman

claxon

clinton

corban

cordon

crustal

dampen

damson

darken

dobson

dolman

dolphin

falcon

faulcon

fielden

footman

foreman

freedman

frosted

garden

gascon

gorgon

hackman

harden

harken

hetman

houseman

jackman

jargon

jasmine

jetson

jordan

jorden

kansan

lockman

london

marlin

melton

molten

morgan

mormon

muslin

nekton

norman

onion

organ

orphan

oxen

packman

pardon

parson

passman

pectin

piston

pitman

practice

runnion

saffron

samson

saxon

scallion

scullion

sequin

sharpen

shearman

sovereign

sovran

squadron

stallion

stallman

stockman

tarpon

teston

tubman

tuscan

undone

vulcan

warden

whitson

plankton

tungsten

action

auction

bastion

beckon

begun

bellon

billon

bisson

blowgun

bourbon

bowman

brightly

brogan

broken

burden

burdon

burman

caption

charon

chicken

chosen

christen

colon

craftsman

crewman

cuban

cumin

deaden

deafen

devon

draftsman

driest

driven

dromon

drunken

dungeon

dutchman

ermine

faction

faustian

felon

firman

flashgun

fortune

fraction

frosting

frozen

georgian

german

gibbon

given

glidden

glisten

griffon

hangman

heaven

heron

hidden

hogan

hoven

human

huntsman

leaden

leaven

ledden

lemon

lessen

lesson

linen

listen

logan

longan

loosen

lumen

luncheon

mangan

mansion

margin

marron

martian

melon

ninon

odin

omen

open

option

perron

person

portion

prison

proven

pullen

quicken

reckon

redden

resin

ribbon

ridden

risen

riven

roman

rosen

rumen

sermon

seven

shogun

showman

shrunken

sicken

slogan

solon

spoken

sportsman

stiffen

stolen

stricken

striven

suction

sunken

swollen

thicken

thrusting

token

toman

torsion

traction

trusting

turban

urban

urson

vegan

villain

watchman

weapon

wiccan

woman

women

wooden

woolen

worsen

woven

yeoman

zircon

markman

cushion

fission

freshen

fusion

burgeon

hessian

lampron

kitchen

salesman

lotion

mission

motion

notion

ocean

landman

marchman

persian

baldwin

cauldron

lengthen

oarsman

pigeon

bordman

surgeon

version

vision

firestone

grandson

horseman

klansman

postman

seedsman

strengthen

urchin

practiced

sexton

sturgeon

townsman

potion

session

trojan

owen

rowan

rowen

ruin

urine

billion

argot

airman

bellman

billman

bolden

bookman

brackets

breasted

bullion

chairman

chessman

chevron

copeman

gumption

breakdown

frostings

bristol

corset

crimson

fractions

crystal

crusted

desman

ensign

drastic

forest

freestone

gilden

golden

goodman

headman

hempen

ibsen

keelson

kelson

kelvin

kenyan

kirkman

kremlin

linden

lisbon

lopeman

lynden

m1

market

mignon

milken

million

minion

newsman

olden

orchid

penman

pillion

pinion

practise

prejudge

selden

sylvan

spearman

tillman

shipman

tendon

silken

soldan

trillion

union

pressman

stepson

stillion

target

woodman

woolman

workman

function

guardsman

junction

landsman

marksman

sanction

belgian

breasting

brethren

bushman

christian

churchman

coachman

cresting

diction

engine

fiction

flexion

freshman

friction

gentian

mention

pension

question

rincon

section

tension

trestle

freighters

frigate

bristle

ergot

crooked

cricket

gristle

circuit

wrestle

arctic

breakdowns

children

crystals

delphian

doorstep

drugstore

forestall

forests

gorgets

headsman

homespun

markets

orchids

spokesman

targets

emption

fracture

christians

frigid

frictions

henchman

penguin

priesthood

brisket

bristles

circuits

crested

crickets

doorsteps

drugstores

ergots

firstborn

forestalls

freighter

frigates

fructose

greasewood

jurist

priestly

pristine

proctors

thrusters

tourist

tractors

trustees

worsted

wrestles

wrestling

fractures

breakthrough

horsetail

corkwood

tourists

brucite

crusty

frosty

proctor

thruster

tractor

trustee

trusty

archduke

breakthroughs

horsehead

frustrates

airstrip

horsetails

firstly

forster

presides

prostate

airstrips

prestige

throughout

arcades

frostbite

frustrate

prostrate

tricksters

crochet

aroused

bracket

brigade

forgot

harassed

preside

presto

proceed

thirsty

turgid

brocades

corrects

erased

forgets

brigades

brookside

crusades

arcade

arrests

directs

precedes

proceeds

pursuits

trickster

earshot

erects

erstwhile

first-rate

jurists

persuades

purists

breastplate

arrest

brocade

correct

crusade

direct

forget

hirsute

parquet

precede

pursuit

erect

lyrist

persuade

purist

thursdays

workdays

wrestlers

cherished

croquet

thursday

workday

3 syllable words

vitamin

horizon

irian

myosin

niacin

citation

enlighten

awaken

beethoven

catalan

determine

forgotten

frightfully

fustian

gravamen

jamaican

kantian

keratin

ottoman

peterman

puritan

nitrogen

skeleton

uneven

vatican

waterman

alien

appian

arian

aryan

avian

cation

caucasian

causation

collegian

dilation

dilution

diversion

dorian

fabian

fenian

foramen

galleon

gaussian

ghanaian

gyration

hawaiian

korean

lecithin

ligation

malayan

malaysian

median

moroccan

negation

nemean

occasion

oration

orion

parthian

petition

phoenician

plebeian

predation

privation

protean

reopen

saccharin

samoan

sedation

summation

tamarin

uterine

venetian

veteran

acumen

artisan

austrian

battalion

capsaicin

charlatan

enliven

guncotton

partisan

policeman

predestine

rifleman

sumatran

unbutton

uncertain

unwritten

scythian

creation

croatian

laotian

lutheran

fijian

horatian

ablation

abrasion

accretion

alsatian

artesian

attention

attrition

carnation

cartesian

contagion

contusion

crustacean

dalmatian

damnation

digression

dissection

formation

foundation

hydration

hydrogen

irishman

lactation

libration

migration

norwegian

optation

optician

partition

patrician

plantation

pretension

profusion

protection

retention

salvation

secretion

stagnation

starvation

tactician

taxation

vibration

albion

cinnamon

citizen

halcyon

hammerman

silicon

specimen

skyrocket

solomon

andean

pelican

reunion

freemason

assassin

ferryman

ramadan

anyone

guardian

bedizen

collagen

garrison

gordian

scorpion

adrian

bitumen

bulletin

bosnian

campion

champion

denizen

jacobin

javelin

jettison

lanolin

keynesian

medicine

toboggan

nevadan

mandarin

suburban

unison

venison

versatile

zambian

adhesion

albumin

badminton

communion

countryman

digestion

downtrodden

masculine

nonunion

octillion

outspoken

truncation

addition

aleutian

allusion

assertion

audition

aversion

cessation

cetacean

clergyman

collision

collusion

commission

commotion

corruption

cremation

deletion

donation

duration

edition

elation

evasion

flirtation

flotation

gradation

halogen

imagine

location

margarine

mutation

narration

notation

origin

ovation

percussion

physician

pollution

position

possession

precaution

precession

precision

presiding

probation

procession

profession

promotion

provision

quotation

reaction

regimen

relation

remission

revision

rotation

solution

tradition

vacation

vocation

attraction

bedouin

carrion

castration

chilean

clarion

completion

conflation

confucian

confusion

contention

contortion

contrition

crustaceans

fireside

freudian

frustrating

frustration

gillian

grobian

heroin

heroine

jovian

julian

libyan

marian

nonhuman

nubian

odeon

permian

prosody

prostration

retraction

simian

singleton

syrian

translation

abandon

abdomen

african

alaskan

alderman

backgammon

brazilian

cambrian

cardigan

chamberlain

charwoman

civilian

cohesion

corsican

crystalline

discipline

dominion

everyone

forbidden

forested

forewoman

genuine

italian

lumberman

magdalen

magician

medallion

mexican

mistaken

nobleman

opinion

pavilion

perfusion

porcelain

practical

practices

prostitute

rhodopsin

skyrockets

talisman

tractable

unburden

uncommon

australian

heartbroken

aegean

coercion

corrosion

derision

fruition

parisian

phrygian

stygian

tragedy

tuition

ambition

anchorman

apportion

benjamin

cognition

collection

condition

confession

connection

connexion

detection

detention

dictation

diffusion

discussion

gestation

oppression

oxygen

abstention

nutrition

obsession

occlusion

admission

transfusion

ablution

abortion

contraption

accession

contraction

addiction

adoption

affection

subtraction

aggression

ascension

aspersion

asuncion

cistercian

compassion

concession

concussion

conversion

deduction

deflation

dentition

depletion

emulsion

equation

eruption

fixation

fractional

impassion

inaction

invasion

laurentian

marketing

menhaden

misshapen

persuasion

precautions

prediction

preemption

prevention

production

resection

progression

proportion

propulsion

repression

reduction

regression

revulsion

seduction

selection

submission

subversion

suspicion

transition

sensation

submersion

temptation

succession

suppression

frustrations

restriction

barricade

bouillon

crocodile

directed

eleven

corrugate

cyprian

elison

feminine

forester

indian

melanin

overman

lesbian

marketer

overdone

overrun

superman

thespian

wesleyan

councilman

crestfallen

ambrosian

archetypal

arkansan

bandwagon

companion

disunion

emblazon

etruscan

forgetful

franciscan

gentleman

handwoven

housebroken

harlequin

intestine

precedents

muskmelon

nebraskan

projection

reptilian

saleswoman

prostitutes

suggestion

snapdragon

unbroken

abduction

abstraction

affliction

anglican

arresting

assumption

combustion

compression

compulsion

conception

conclusion

concoction

conduction

confection

constriction

construction

convection

convention

conviction

convulsion

correcting

correction

crusading

decision

declension

delusion

desertion

devotion

diffraction

direction

disruption

distortion

division

emission

emotion

erosion

exaction

exhaustion

filtration

fisherman

illusion

immersion

induction

inflation

infusion

inhuman

intention

intrusion

marketings

misfortune

munition

musician

obstruction

omission

pentathlon

permission

perversion

preceding

presumption

recession

recision

religion

rescission

resumption

reversion

secession

sedition

suspension

tragedies

transaction

transmission

volition

chairperson

objection

bedridden

archetype

backwoodsman

barricades

prejudgment

chairwoman

logician

peristyle

timberman

congestion

targeted

cherrystone

vermilion

crystallize

characters

crocodiles

clarendon

christendom

forestry

foresters

in-person

narcotic

rebellion

president

prostatic

marketers

precedent

practically

practises

creosote

workaday

wrestler

theorist

adsorption

complexion

consumption

extortion

extrusion

destruction

defection

depiction

depression

erecting

excision

exertion

technician

absorption

erection

rendition

congressman

eviction

reception

distraction

excretion

prosthetic

expansion

dissension

election

incision

incursion

extension

dimension

directions

dispersion

infarction

insertion

preclusion

expulsion

proceedings

seclusion

infraction

beholden

ignition

trusteeship

christianize

prescription

trustworthy

corrections

deception

transgression

inversion

perception

perfection

compunction

distinction

archetypes

architect

architrave

cherrystones

crystallized

egyptian

ejection

embolden

imprison

narcotics

presidents

rejection

crocheting

conjunction

conscription

extraction

instruction

irrigate

corrective

directive

subscription

parakeet

transcription

extinction

exception

excursion

deflection

discretion

erections

implosion

redemption

inception

impression

midshipman

inclusion

reflection

infection

invention

misprision

prosthetics

marketplace

parachute

foreshadow

prejudice

architects

injection

ingestion

aerostat

barristers

charcuterie

description

encryption

exclusion

exemption

explosion

expression

heuristic

inflection

infliction

inspection

parakeets

parasites

persuaded

proscription

parachutes

foreshadows

surrogate

englishman

cruzado

prostheses

inscription

injunction

aerostats

heuristics

arrogate

barrister

breakwater

correctly

crusaders

cruzados

directly

theorists

directors

parasite

varsity

surrogates

proceeding

crusader

director

procedure

erector

character

peroxide

variegate

scarcity

procedures

4 syllable words

criterion

dietitian

leviathan

ohioan

arabian

canadian

chameleon

comedian

diocesan

hyperion

iberian

liberian

mammalian

praetorian

siberian

aberration

adoration

athenian

coloration

ideation

laceration

moderation

nigerian

operation

surrogation

toleration

violation

excitation

hypertension

commutation

moravian

albanian

armenian

committeeman

cotyledon

custodian

cyclopean

graduation

guatemalan

jordanian

librarian

maturation

minnesotan

pagurian

predetermine

samaritan

saturation

tasmanian

watermelon

admiration

allocation

alteration

animation

annotation

appalachian

avocation

affirmation

allegation

appellation

arthurian

aspiration

collocation

corp.

corporation

connotation

correlation

defamation

delegation

desolation

decimation

dedication

derivation

desiccation

dilatation

elevation

fluoridation

gravitation

habitation

inhalation

innovation

hibernation

imitation

immolation

hesitation

irrigation

isolation

jubilation

medication

meditation

navigation

oscillation

politician

polynesian

practitioner

propagation

provocation

recitation

renovation

repetition

revelation

revocation

sanitation

suffocation

ulceration

vacillation

validation

valuation

amputation

computation

bavarian

draconian

gregorian

himalayan

adulation

contrarian

vegetation

agitation

misbegotten

modulation

assyrian

collodion

coloradan

european

fallopian

floridian

galilean

iranian

jacobean

maccabean

missourian

napoleon

newtonian

planarian

plutonian

fluctuation

protozoan

reawaken

education

utopian

cogitation

valerian

pedestrian

masturbation

aviation

abnegation

abrogation

proclamation

apparition

refutation

consolation

conversation

permutation

persecution

replication

abdication

convocation

practitioners

vindication

bohemian

coalition

corinthian

decoration

deviation

acclamation

acclimation

accusation

activation

adaptation

calibration

cancellation

celebration

competition

compilation

consummation

cultivation

insulation

invocation

lilliputian

polyhedron

population

prosecution

prostitution

publication

reclamation

federation

generation

foliation

reputation

degradation

duplication

resignation

application

occupation

hegelian

devastation

observation

iteration

mediation

liberation

miseration

pelagian

perforation

preparation

obligation

prohibition

conservation

confirmation

palpitation

radiation

reassertion

rhetorician

reparation

alternation

altercation

annexation

separation

granulation

oxidation

statistician

approbation

segregation

variation

advocation

affectation

aggravation

aggregation

backwardation

deportation

depravation

depredation

deprivation

desecration

designation

elocution

emigration

equitation

fabrication

immigration

inattention

indication

penetration

retardation

tabulation

veneration

abyssinian

accordion

agrarian

alabaman

aldebaran

american

amphibian

assemblyman

barbarian

centurion

columbian

conjugation

copernican

corrugated

dandelion

darwinian

dehydration

dominican

eritrean

estonian

eustachian

ferocity

glaciation

gorgonian

herculean

historian

hydrocarbon

ibuprofen

interurban

kindergarten

legislation

meridian

nestorian

nicaraguan

nonpartisan

oblivion

obsidian

paraguayan

pavlovian

penicillin

peruvian

presidency

reexamine

sectarian

situation

syncopation

victorian

voracity

wagnerian

bifurcation

attribution

augmentation

execution

imputation

exhortation

formulation

gastrulation

illustration

evocation

excavation

hungarian

readmission

complication

opposition

realization

importation

proposition

evolution

implication

incantation

fascination

incarnation

figuration

forsythias

fractionally

mitigation

octahedron

fumigation

mortification

ostentation

mongolian

motivation

nomination

perspiration

perturbation

preelection

preignition

preservation

obfuscation

punctuation

mutilation

procreation

profanation

ministration

constellation

consternation

constipation

transformation

transportation

abolition

algerian

calculation

tetrahedron

coronation

declaration

demolition

deposition

desperation

detonation

devolution

dissertation

dissipation

dissolution

domination

constitution

erudition

intuition

levitation

litigation

locomotion

machination

manumission

lancastrian

irritation

limitation

consultation

recreation

reelection

reformation

relocation

repercussion

reposition

repossession

reservation

resolution

respiration

restoration

revolution

rumination

smithsonian

supposition

malnutrition

condemnation

embarkation

inflammation

retribution

visitation

arbitration

satisfaction

usurpation

confiscation

trepidation

consecration

disputation

malformation

subluxation

substitution

titillation

congregation

exhalation

indigestion

strangulation

adrenaline

comparison

forgettable

interwoven

macedonian

noblewoman

arizonan

devonian

purgatory

simonian

armageddon

crocodilian

pagination

directorate

marketable

hemoglobin

sicilian

practicable

shakespearean

republican

presidencies

bolivian

tamoxifen

absolution

acquisition

admonition

incrustation

algonquian

ammunition

distribution

benediction

carcinogen

circulation

circumcision

combination

composition

contemplation

commendation

convolution

culmination

deformation

dereliction

destination

destitution

disaffection

distillation

demarcation

dislocation

disposition

explication

exploitation

emulation

estimation

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8 syllable words

Words that rhyme with the word brighten

Welcome to the Rhyme Finder! This rhyming dictionary allows users to explore rhymes for any given word. This includes rhymes based on syllables, near rhymes, and more.


How to use the rhyming dictionary

Enter your "starter" word in the FIND RHYMES input box, and click search. It's really that simple! We separate perfect rhymes (near the top) from the imperfect rhymes (toward the bottom). In your rhyming results, colors descend based on the best rhyme. Once the color changes, you will notice the results reset back into alphabetical order. Click on any of the results for the word's definition, part of speech, use in Scrabble, and more. Please note that many of our results are proper nound or slang. While we may not store definitions for all of these words, we can direct you to the Google results for that word.


Perfect Rhymes

Perfect rhymes are just what they sound like. No pun intended! Think of perfect rhymes as words which definitively rhyme. Words that most people would not question. Here are some examples:

  • Cat and Hat
  • Head and Red
  • Egg and Beg
  • Soap and Hope
  • True and Blue

Imperfect Rhymes

Near rhymes, otherwise known as imperfect rhymes, are words that sound the same but are not perfect rhymes. Having trouble deciding if a word is a perfect or imperfect rhyme? Here are some examples:

  • Cat and Bad
  • Head and Mud
  • Egg and Peck
  • Soap and Chap
  • True and Cure

Using Rhymes

Rhymes are most useful in creating lyrics, but they can also be used as a tool to memorize. It is a powerful mnemonic device. This is why song lyrics can be so easy to remember! It's also why rhymes are a great study tool for memorizing! Use this tool to help write poetry, win rhyme games, write a rap song, create lyrics, and expand your vocabulary! Rhyming is very important in music because it creates a rhythm that further creates meaning, emotion, and feeling. It also creates an echo in the lyrics. With children, rhyming is a very important tool. Rhyming teaches children how language works, helps them understand the rhythm of language, and learn how to make predictions. In other words, rhymes teach children phrases to anticipate and rhymes enhance their memory. Within all contexts, rhyming is helpful in expanding your imagination no matter if you’re a child or an adult.

When creating lyrics, there are five types of rhymes to choose from.

  • End rhymes: rhyming of the final word of a line
  • Internal rhymes: rhyming of two words within the same line
  • Slant rhymes: near rhymes
  • Identical rhymes: use the same word at the end of each line
  • Eye rhymes: look like they rhyme but sound different

Different Types of Rhymes
  • Mascline rhymes: have a stressed syllable
  • Feminine rhymes: have a stressless syllable.

Ready for a challenge? Try to come up with rhymes for these surprising words that just aren’t very rhymy. Check them with our dictionary! Examples of tough rhymes:

  • Month
  • Silver
  • Bulb
  • Wolf
  • Husband
  • Walrus
  • Orange

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