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

bookman

crimson

jetson

keelson

kelson

lisbon

listens

lynden

pillion

pinion

piston

billion

billman

citron

claxon

clinton

dictum

ensign

gilden

linden

mignon

milken

million

minion

nekton

oxen

pectin

pitman

saxon

sequin

shipman

silken

spearman

stepson

stillion

sylvan

tillman

trillion

victim

beacon

beckon

begun

billon

bitten

briton

deacon

driven

gibbon

given

glidden

griffon

hidden

kitten

lessen

lesson

linen

mitten

ninon

reckon

ribbon

smitten

stiffen

striven

villain

weaken

women

actions

prison

auctions

written

riven

emption

ridden

risen

factions

gumption

bushman

caption

engine

freshman

belgian

dungeon

luncheon

martian

option

question

rincon

portion

mansion

torsion

extant

extend

extent

sanction

children

pistons

caution

distance

distant

legion

lotion

caxton

lesion

motion

nation

lengthen

notion

ocean

passion

potion

station

dudgeon

ashen

bludgeon

spokesman

strengthen

victims

fashion

gudgeon

haitian

heathen

ration

region

sixteen

fielden

m1

melton

henchman

vulcan

questions

stockman

acton

airman

damson

desman

dobson

footman

freedman

goodman

hackman

headman

hempen

hetman

jackman

kelvin

kenyan

kirkman

kremlin

lockman

london

tubman

woolman

tungsten

sultan

system

tendon

teston

tuscan

undone

wisdom

woodman

workman

arson

bellman

brakeman

bullion

chairman

chessman

chevron

chieftain

muslin

onion

packman

parson

penman

pressman

rectum

runnion

samson

scullion

selden

shearman

extends

bacon

basin

bason

bastion

beaten

bellon

bison

blacken

bookstand

bracken

brethren

breton

broken

button

caisson

charon

chasten

cheapen

cousin

cretin

deaden

deafen

deepen

demon

devon

dozen

drunken

dutchman

eaten

eden

elan

extinct

fasten

faustian

felon

flashgun

fortune

freeman

georgian

hasten

heaven

heron

huntsman

hyson

jason

jetton

leaden

leaven

ledden

leman

lemon

leven

lichen

liken

listing

locken

loosen

margin

marksman

marron

mason

melon

moisten

muffin

mullen

mutton

oven

perron

person

pullen

reason

redden

rerun

resin

seaman

season

semen

seton

seven

shaken

shrunken

sixteens

slacken

spoken

steven

sudden

sullen

summon

sunken

sweeten

taken

threaten

token

toughen

treason

twisting

urson

vegan

waken

weapon

wheaten

woman

wooden

woolen

worsen

zircon

grandson

marchman

markman

homespun

scotsman

yachtsman

horseman

seedsman

headsman

statesman

systems

sixteenth

delphian

capstan

doctrine

dustman

distend

asian

burgeon

peon

cajun

persian

earthen

fusion

mahone

pathan

sturgeon

suasion

surgeon

trojan

urchin

version

paean

bookstands

listings

bastions

penguin

plankton

alman

bargain

canyon

banyan

alban

barton

aspen

apron

bagman

boatman

canton

atman

baston

bolden

austin

boston

calvin

captain

carbon

carman

carmine

carton

chaplain

chastened

chestnut

classman

copeman

corban

cordon

chapman

custom

dalton

dampen

darken

disdain

dolman

dolphin

dukedom

falcon

fastened

faulcon

fibrin

fireman

foreman

fountain

garden

gascon

golden

gorgon

harden

harken

harten

hastens

hearten

houseman

jargon

jasmine

jordan

jorden

kansan

lightman

olden

panton

organ

outdone

outrun

marlin

marten

martin

pardon

plantain

scallion

passman

patron

shakedown

sharpen

shorten

shotgun

sistine

smarten

soldan

sovereign

sovran

squadron

stallman

spartan

stallion

union

lineman

linemen

minden

lopeman

matron

molten

morgan

mormon

mountain

newsman

norman

orphan

ponton

saffron

santon

tarpon

tartan

wanton

warden

craftsman

sportsman

draftsman

coachman

mangan

othman

watchman

churchman

hangman

longan

alan

amman

auden

baron

barren

baton

batten

batton

bayman

blowgun

bobbin

bowman

brazen

bollen

boughten

bourbon

brighten

broaden

brogan

burden

burdon

burman

burton

cabin

canaan

cannon

canon

cayman

certain

chosen

colon

common

cotton

craven

crewman

crouton

cuban

cumin

curtain

dagan

dagon

daman

distinct

dragon

dromon

ermine

fallen

famine

fatten

firman

flatten

floren

foreign

frighten

frozen

gallon

gammon

garron

german

gladden

gluten

gotten

graven

happen

hausen

haven

heighten

hogan

hoten

hoven

human

hymen

hyphen

kalan

laden

lagan

latin

layman

lighten

liman

liven

logan

loren

lumen

lyden

madden

maiden

odin

often

omen

open

pagan

patten

pavon

platen

platten

poison

pollan

pollen

proven

raven

riden

ripen

robin

roman

rosen

rosin

rotten

rumen

sadden

salmon

satan

satin

sermon

shaman

shogun

showman

siphon

siren

slogan

sodden

soften

solon

stolen

straighten

swollen

syphon

talon

thousand

tappen

tighten

titan

trodden

toman

triton

turban

urban

wagon

warren

whiten

widen

wizen

woven

yaupon

yeoman

zaman

bordman

cauldron

portman

postman

baldwin

salesman

disdained

disdains

shakedowns

townsman

chestnuts

customs

oarsman

lampron

klansman

landman

sixteenths

dian

festoon

heightens

mayan

owen

rowen

rowan

ruin

keystone

scion

lightens

rayon

urine

zion

lactone

cowan

octane

tightens

ion

lion

peacetime

gowan

guardsman

vestment

landsman

vestments

keystones

asthma

right-hand

eyestone

pastime

ragtime

nighttime

nighttimes

pastimes

fighting

lighting

sighting

yachting

costume

destin

sustain

acting

basting

boasting

casting

coasting

costing

fightings

hosting

lasting

lightning

mustang

ousting

posting

resting

roasting

sightings

tasting

testing

toasting

touchdown

vesting

wasting

astound

costumes

sustained

sustains

castings

lightnings

mustangs

postings

tastings

touchdowns

astounds

eighteen

eighteens

esteem

eighteenth

nightmares

nightmare

postmark

3 syllable words

mexican

affliction

conviction

deflection

diffraction

discretion

exaction

exception

excursion

induction

infection

reflection

cinnamon

eleven

citizen

accretion

chilean

gillian

injection

accession

affection

libyan

listener

collection

cistercian

concussion

connection

deception

detention

deflation

depletion

dimension

dissection

simian

depression

syrian

connexion

dissension

emulsion

equation

eruption

exciting

exertion

ignition

impassion

incision

incursion

insertion

misshapen

perfection

preclusion

preemption

pretension

prevention

production

protection

reactions

reception

reduction

retention

revulsion

seclusion

secretion

sectional

selection

succession

technician

addition

aleutian

assertion

audition

cessation

commission

commotion

corruption

cremation

decision

delusion

division

duration

edition

erosion

evasion

fisherman

illusion

imagine

immersion

location

munition

musician

narration

negation

occasion

omission

percussion

permission

petition

phoenician

physician

pollution

position

possession

precession

predation

procession

profession

promotion

recision

relation

religion

remission

rescission

reversion

sedation

solution

summation

tradition

vacation

venetian

vocation

volition

egyptian

projection

truncation

derision

phrygian

aegean

croatian

horatian

laotian

description

infarction

inflection

infliction

inspection

coercion

infraction

parisian

scythian

stygian

destruction

distraction

exclusion

excretion

expansion

explosion

expression

expulsion

extension

extrusion

restriction

decadent

discipline

dissidence

dissident

in-person

logician

magician

rebellion

abduction

attraction

concoction

conduction

confection

convection

declension

disruption

distortion

equations

exhaustion

filtration

inception

inclusion

inflation

invention

midshipman

presumption

resumption

retraction

impression

distinction

redemption

bedizen

bitumen

elison

garrison

skeleton

nicotine

listeners

medicine

assassin

cyprian

denizen

echidna

freemason

jacobin

jettison

keratin

puritan

silicon

indian

specimen

vatican

venison

ablation

injunction

ingestion

instruction

inscription

ablution

abortion

admission

adoption

aggression

ambition

apportion

ascension

asuncion

attention

auctioneer

cognition

compassion

concession

condition

attrition

confession

crustacean

irishman

dentition

diffusion

dispersion

exceeding

gestation

objection

invasion

inversion

lactation

constriction

repression

laurentian

locations

occlusion

oppression

optician

patrician

perception

nutrition

partition

positions

progression

propulsion

regression

rendition

obsession

oxygen

proportion

sensation

excitement

extensions

submission

suppression

suspicion

tactician

taxation

temptation

transition

vacations

vocations

accident

allusion

aversion

bedouin

besetting

carrion

caucasian

causation

citation

clarion

collegian

collision

collusion

complexion

contraction

decadents

digestion

dilation

dilution

dissidents

distinctions

donation

encryption

etruscan

exemption

extinction

extortion

fenian

flirtation

flotation

ghanaian

gradation

gyration

hawaiian

heroin

heroine

imprison

intestine

lecithin

ligation

listening

malayan

malaysian

marian

median

muskmelon

mutation

myosin

nemean

niacin

notation

oration

ovation

plebeian

precision

prescription

privation

probation

proscription

provision

questioner

quotation

reopen

revision

rotation

saccharin

samoan

subtraction

suggestion

ticketing

veteran

visiting

brazilian

implosion

infusion

inhuman

dominion

misfortune

misprision

singleton

alaskan

chairperson

chairwoman

transaction

opinion

policeman

mistaken

transmission

fijian

cohesion

italian

frustration

intrusion

genuine

acumen

intention

suspension

pavilion

civilian

guncotton

predestine

compression

timberman

combustion

completion

compunction

compulsion

corrosion

conception

conclusion

unbutton

conflation

confucian

talisman

uncertain

contention

contortion

assumption

auctioneers

contrition

convention

vermilion

victimize

convulsion

englishman

uncommon

extinctions

aspersion

conscription

contusion

conjunction

contagion

conversion

accidents

beholden

benjamin

dalmatian

menhaden

digression

hydration

salvation

construction

migration

questioners

questionnaire

obstruction

carnation

extensive

damnation

congestion

profusion

optation

liechtenstein

plantation

libration

subscription

extraction

transcription

alsatian

equating

formation

foundation

subversion

succeeding

vibration

submersion

starvation

abrasion

stagnation

bouillon

bulletin

jamaican

macadam

nevadan

peterman

suburban

uneven

anyone

awaken

destiny

determine

ferryman

fustian

halcyon

lesbian

pelican

reunion

thespian

unison

toboggan

wesleyan

octillion

occident

adsorption

adhesion

distances

absorption

disunion

badminton

franciscan

contraption

harlequin

gentleman

extender

consumption

masculine

testament

nebraskan

reptilian

abstention

origin

regimen

halogen

diversion

clergyman

perversion

biotin

uterine

castration

moroccan

orion

pentathlon

cation

tamarin

questionnaires

translation

confusion

prostration

horizon

fastener

foramen

gaussian

abandon

abstraction

african

battalion

backgammon

bedridden

capsaicin

cardigan

corsican

decedent

destinies

enlighten

enliven

everyone

forbidden

hesitant

lumberman

medallion

nobleman

residence

resident

rhodopsin

rifleman

unburden

unwritten

backwoodsman

extenders

testaments

lutheran

anchorman

artesian

extinguish

cartesian

hydrogen

nitrogen

norwegian

persuasion

transfusion

transgression

emblazon

beethoven

arkansan

countryman

councilman

crestfallen

communion

companion

embolden

collagen

forgotten

sustenance

catalan

residents

unbroken

acetone

customer

fasteners

feminine

gravamen

solomon

decedents

mandarin

melanin

ottoman

vitamin

hammerman

waterman

disdainful

istanbul

javelin

lanolin

overdone

overman

overrun

ramadan

superman

extinguished

nonhuman

anglican

margarine

rectangle

fastening

parthian

abdomen

alderman

alien

appian

arian

artisan

aryan

austrian

avian

chamberlain

charlatan

charwoman

clarendon

customers

customize

distemper

dorian

estimate

fabian

forewoman

freudian

galleon

grobian

irian

jovian

julian

korean

magdalen

nubian

odeon

partisan

perfusion

permian

porcelain

protean

sumatran

congressman

distinctive

distinctly

rectangles

fastenings

adrian

albion

andean

bosnian

champion

gordian

keynesian

zambian

albumin

ambrosian

campion

guardian

kantian

pseudonym

scorpion

bandwagon

downtrodden

academe

estimates

handwoven

housebroken

nonunion

saleswoman

snapdragon

outspoken

lightening

australian

heartbroken

bystander

cambrian

guesstimate

pseudonyms

nightingale

bystanders

postnatal

tectonics

distinguished

asthmatics

distinguish

lastingly

nightmarish

astonish

guesstimates

postmaster

toastmaster

postmasters

begotten

costumer

locating

asthmatic

costumers

systemic

tectonic

astounding

astounded

right-handed

post-mortem

4 syllable words

bifurcation

dictionary

preelection

reelection

decoration

iteration

liberation

miseration

reassertion

benediction

indication

invocation

liquidation

lubrication

abdication

crucifixion

syndication

fabrication

dereliction

dictionaries

disaffection

dislocation

insurrection

interaction

publication

vindication

situation

allocation

declaration

dedication

figuration

fumigation

intuition

irrigation

irritation

repercussion

repossession

levitation

limitation

resurrection

litigation

syncopation

collocation

desiccation

dilatation

diminution

dissertation

dissipation

dissolution

divination

gravitation

imitation

immolation

inhalation

innovation

provocation

recreation

visitation

realization

relocation

titillation

trepidation

mitigation

revocation

himalayan

avocation

medication

rumination

evocation

suffocation

sicilian

apparition

aviation

coalition

cogitation

coloration

corinthian

deviation

dietitian

disconnection

disinfection

education

electrician

federation

fluctuation

foliation

generation

ideation

imperfection

implication

incantation

incarnation

inclination

indexation

inquisition

interdiction

intersection

jurisdiction

liquefaction

mediation

meridian

pelagian

preparation

prohibition

radiation

reinspection

reparation

reproduction

rhetorician

separation

surrogation

variation

veneration

violation

glaciation

minnesotan

saturation

nicaraguan

maturation

exhibition

expiration

excitation

fibrillation

intercession

inundation

invitation

interjection

imposition

intermission

immigration

indecision

lilliputian

sectarian

information

interruption

intimation

intonation

inspiration

insulation

persecution

recantation

relaxation

restitution

incubation

prosecution

requisition

graduation

reclamation

stipulation

recognition

stimulation

recollection

replication

simulation

tribulation

victorian

speculation

predilection

desecration

demarcation

equitation

affectation

advocation

cultivation

distillation

duplication

application

annexation

convocation

disposition

elocution

incrustation

indiscretion

introduction

contradiction

misconception

businesswoman

arizonan

assyrian

bolivian

bavarian

hyperion

reawaken

maccabean

abolition

iberian

siberian

simonian

allegation

devonian

dehydration

animation

annotation

criterion

appellation

decimation

defamation

erudition

jubilation

iranian

definition

delegation

evolution

fascination

jacobean

domination

germination

habitation

locomotion

liberian

coronation

derivation

correlation

demolition

connotation

missourian

deposition

desolation

desperation

fluoridation

hesitation

inhibition

disillusion

emanation

detonation

devolution

elevation

isolation

planarian

machination

opposition

nomination

manumission

meditation

european

equestrian

navigation

mutilation

floridian

motivation

valerian

oscillation

politician

preignition

procreation

propagation

proposition

polynesian

premonition

preservation

profanation

readmission

recitation

reformation

renovation

repetition

reposition

reservation

resolution

respiration

restoration

revelation

revolution

sanitation

smithsonian

supposition

termination

ulceration

vacillation

validation

confiscation

importation

exploration

instigation

expedition

complication

arbitration

embarkation

exposition

illustration

indentation

installation

indignation

infestation

inflammation

institution

integration

imputation

interception

pigmentation

preconception

mortification

misperception

punctuation

attribution

consecration

decompression

disinflation

dispensation

disputation

excavation

execution

intervention

ministration

obfuscation

satisfaction

subluxation

substitution

adoration

introspection

laceration

operation

toleration

adulation

perforation

pagination

deconstruction

nigerian

hegelian

shakespearean

leviathan

aberration

modulation

moderation

agitation

vegetation

misbegotten

tamoxifen

reconstruction

apprehension

exhalation

indigestion

registration

abnegation

abrogation

absolution

abyssinian

accusation

actionable

activation

adaptation

agrarian

admonition

consummation

backwardation

commendation

aggravation

approbation

combination

accordion

consolation

convolution

amphibian

oblivion

acclimation

pagurian

acclamation

calibration

paraguayan

acquisition

aggregation

altercation

predetermine

ammunition

reexamine

cancellation

carcinogen

committeeman

misdemeanor

obsidian

celebration

centurion

circulation

competition

compilation

olympian

commutation

culmination

composition

deformation

deprivation

emigration

destitution

degradation

interurban

devastation

greco-roman

eritrean

destination

cyclopean

depredation

dominican

darwinian

deportation

depravation

designation

emulation

estimation

granulation

inattention

indonesian

historian

exceedingly

fermentation

hypertension

molestation

obligation

occupation

ordination

ovulation

oxidation

palpitation

penetration

population

precondition

presentation

proclamation

prostitution

protestation

refutation

regulation

retardation

statistician

reputation

residential

resignation

retrocession

segregation

subdivision

superstition

tabulation

vaccination

ventilation

implantation

circumspection

impregnation

infiltration

conjugation

elongation

extenuate

legislation

ohioan

explanation

exclamation

expectation

explication

exploitation

extradition

extrication

distribution

sequestration

usurpation

valuation

admiration

comprehension

aspiration

englishwoman

exhumation

alteration

supervision

algerian

appalachian

hungarian

affirmation

hibernation

perturbation

corp.

corporation

perspiration

melanesian

academy

augmentation

amputation

calculation

arabian

condemnation

condensation

condescension

constellation

constipation

destinations

estimations

formulation

menstruation

ostentation

retribution

segmentation

canadian

computation

consultation

exhortation

gastrulation

compensation

chameleon

comedian

diocesan

draconian

fallopian

malnutrition

collodion

galilean

gregorian

constitution

mammalian

fragmentation

napoleon

praetorian

protozoan

armageddon

extendible

adrenaline

extensively

crocodilian

congregation

comparison

hemoglobin

strangulation

interwoven

misdemeanors

noblewoman

pedestrian

republican

athenian

bohemian

extinguishment

astonishment

confrontation

conflagration

nonprescription

obstetrician

alternation

confirmation

circumcision

masturbation

permutation

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8 syllable words

Words that rhyme with the word fiction

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

Rhyming Dictionary


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