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Rhymes Here is a list of the words that rhyme with the word housebroken.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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1 syllable words
2 syllable words

harken

tuscan

houseman

fibrin

gascon

darken

outrun

broken

spoken

token

aspirin

cauldron

markman

postman

oarsman

portman

bordman

marchman

doctrine

dustman

townsman

lampron

alban

aspen

boston

carbon

carman

carmine

carton

classman

corban

cordon

dobson

falcon

faulcon

fireman

foreman

fountain

garden

gorgon

harden

harten

hearten

jargon

jordan

jorden

marlin

marten

martin

morgan

mormon

mountain

norman

organ

orphan

outdone

pardon

parson

sharpen

shorten

smarten

sovran

spartan

squadron

tubman

sovereign

tarpon

tartan

vulcan

austin

saffron

barton

bargain

arson

passman

baston

warden

flashgun

fortune

torsion

georgian

sunken

guardsman

bastion

drunken

faustian

landsman

margin

martian

portion

shrunken

colon

hogan

bison

hoten

hoven

bason

baron

barren

bowman

bracken

brogan

cabin

cuban

fasten

dromon

blacken

blowgun

chosen

floren

garron

bobbin

frozen

foreign

hausen

hyson

liken

swollen

omen

toman

solon

yeoman

stolen

lichen

locken

logan

thousand

zircon

loosen

loren

odin

rosen

open

shogun

showman

slacken

slogan

roman

siren

warren

woven

robin

caxton

capstan

yachtsman

homespun

horseman

klansman

icebergs

children

scotsman

landman

spokesman

fashion

lotion

motion

notion

ocean

passion

potion

prussian

ration

russian

trojan

ashen

caution

tungsten

cowan

rowen

gowan

plankton

owen

rowan

chaplain

chapman

ibsen

iceberg

banyan

highbrows

bagman

chessman

chevron

airman

citron

claxon

hackman

canyon

copeman

acton

calvin

bolden

boatman

canton

captain

chairman

alman

atman

golden

apron

jackman

lineman

lisbon

milken

jasmine

matron

kansan

kirkman

lightman

linemen

lockman

london

lopeman

minden

molten

muslin

newsman

olden

onion

oxen

packman

panton

patron

piston

plantain

silken

ponton

pressman

runnion

samson

scallion

soldan

santon

saxon

scullion

shearman

shotgun

spearman

stallion

teston

sultan

stallman

stockman

undone

union

dalton

dampen

damson

dolman

dolphin

wanton

workman

craftsman

draftsman

huntsman

lakefront

misprint

newsprint

sagebrush

sportsman

marksman

action

auction

brethren

bushman

christian

churchman

coachman

caption

dungeon

dutchman

faction

fraction

freshman

hangman

longan

luncheon

mangan

mansion

option

othman

question

rincon

suction

traction

watchman

dashboards

alan

amman

auden

bacon

basin

baton

batten

batton

beckon

bisson

beacon

bollen

boughten

bourbon

brighten

broaden

burden

burdon

burman

burton

button

caisson

cannon

canon

certain

charon

chasten

chicken

christen

common

cotton

cousin

crewman

crouton

cumin

curtain

deacon

dozen

dragon

ermine

fallen

famine

fatten

firman

flatten

frighten

gallon

gammon

german

gibbon

gladden

glisten

gluten

gotten

happen

hasten

heighten

heron

highbrow

human

hymen

hyphen

jason

lagan

latin

lessen

lesson

lighten

liman

listen

liven

lumen

lyden

madden

marron

mason

moisten

muffin

mutton

often

mullen

oven

seedsman

pollan

ribbon

riden

desperate

pollen

sexton

perron

misprints

patten

reckon

pavon

platen

platten

person

disprove

proven

quicken

rerun

ripen

headsman

rumen

salesman

statesman

rotten

rosin

sadden

salmon

shaken

sicken

satin

siphon

sodden

soften

stricken

sudden

sullen

summon

syphon

taken

talon

tappen

triton

trodden

turban

urban

urson

wagon

waken

weaken

widen

delphian

whiten

wiccan

wizen

yaupon

worsen

tighten

titan

thicken

toughen

grandson

sermon

bludgeon

burgeon

cushion

dashboard

dudgeon

earthen

fission

freshen

fusion

grecian

gudgeon

gumption

haitian

henchman

hessian

mahone

mission

nation

pathan

persian

session

station

sturgeon

surgeon

urchin

version

washboard

billion

lion

billman

freedman

chessboards

footman

bookman

desman

headman

bullion

disburse

gilden

goodman

crimson

dian

clinton

ensign

junction

bellman

chieftain

fielden

brakeman

mayan

hempen

backboards

function

stepson

scion

trillion

woodman

baseboards

oxfords

melton

jaspers

linden

pillion

pinion

pitman

passports

mignon

woolman

million

zion

ruin

lynden

urine

whitson

penman

keelson

kelson

kelvin

kenyan

kremlin

nekton

stillion

ion

jetson

sanction

hetman

minion

pectin

selden

sequin

tendon

shipman

sylvan

tillman

flexion

tension

diction

engine

friction

gentian

fiction

pension

mention

section

belgian

baseboard

passport

dispersed

expressed

baldwin

oxford

backboard

chessboard

lengthen

phosphors

strengthen

asper

bayman

beaten

begun

bellon

billon

bitten

brazen

breton

briton

canaan

cayman

cheapen

craven

cretin

dagan

dagon

daman

deaden

deafen

deepen

demon

devon

driven

eaten

eden

elan

felon

freeman

given

glidden

graven

griffon

haven

heaven

hidden

jasper

jetton

kalan

kitten

laden

layman

leaden

leaven

ledden

leman

lemon

leven

linen

maiden

melon

mitten

ninon

pagan

poison

prison

pullen

raven

reason

redden

resin

ridden

risen

riven

satan

seaman

season

semen

seton

seven

shaman

smitten

steven

stiffen

straighten

striven

sweeten

threaten

treason

vegan

villain

wheaten

woolen

written

zaman

weapon

woman

women

wooden

emption

asian

experts

region

cajun

heathen

kitchen

legion

lesion

pigeon

suasion

vision

disbar

m1

whispers

aspire

esprit

phosphor

disperse

exports

paean

peon

rayon

despairs

expert

whisper

neighbors

hesper

penguin

vesper

expired

export

dispair

despair

expire

neighbor

3 syllable words

abdomen

albumin

downtrodden

nebraskan

prostration

african

frustration

lumberman

austrian

cambrian

unburden

castration

libration

aspersion

australian

constriction

construction

abrasion

abstraction

disbursement

suburban

obstruction

vibration

adsorption

assertion

commotion

contraction

councilman

countryman

crestfallen

destruction

distraction

embolden

erosion

explosion

extrusion

franciscan

gaussian

heroin

heroine

icebreakers

masculine

muskmelon

prescription

promotion

proscription

restriction

samoan

snapdragon

subtraction

transfusion

disbursements

aspirant

mistaken

abduction

nobleman

timberman

corsican

corrosion

unbutton

uncertain

unwritten

anglican

chamberlain

forbidden

forewoman

aspersions

charwoman

attraction

compression

discretion

assumption

contrition

implosion

intrusion

misprision

icebreaker

suspension

abandon

alderman

disbarment

instruction

conscription

extraction

transcription

objection

subscription

guardian

hammerman

aggression

superman

albion

jamaican

mandarin

ablation

abortion

beethoven

gordian

garrison

vatican

accretion

waterman

fustian

toboggan

ambition

anchorman

determine

attrition

awaken

ascension

conversion

digression

dispersion

dissection

hydrogen

cistercian

crustacean

hydration

nitrogen

assassin

migration

zambian

norwegian

proportion

progression

regression

submersion

submission

subversion

suppression

suspicion

apportion

nutrition

oppression

patrician

secretion

scorpion

consumption

absorption

contraption

expression

badminton

abstention

excretion

transgression

handwoven

harlequin

exclusion

companion

disunion

infraction

aspirants

emblazon

description

etruscan

imprison

aversion

grobian

orion

devotion

distinction

emotion

diversion

irian

korean

nubian

tamarin

fisherman

arian

oration

parthian

probation

procession

aryan

origin

bedouin

margarine

gyration

dorian

plebeian

moroccan

reopen

uterine

conception

contortion

distortion

excursion

filtration

transmission

retraction

impression

disruption

diffraction

misfortune

alaskan

expressions

artisan

lutheran

discipline

capsaicin

everyone

civilian

dispersal

cardigan

inscription

battalion

bedridden

brazilian

chairwoman

charlatan

dominion

magdalen

medallion

mexican

opinion

laotian

pavilion

porcelain

rebellion

rifleman

sumatran

partisan

dissension

depression

backwoodsman

erection

extinction

formation

gestation

incursion

expresses

insertion

inversion

irishman

laurentian

misshapen

obsession

oxygen

partition

perception

persuasion

reception

repression

resection

starvation

succession

taxation

accession

alsatian

artesian

aspiring

beholden

carnation

cartesian

concession

contagion

deception

adrian

extension

inspection

misfortunes

andean

campion

catalan

collagen

ferryman

gravamen

macabre

solomon

specimen

uneven

vitamin

champion

kantian

keratin

lanolin

lesbian

expulsion

extortion

cyprian

halcyon

javelin

nevadan

encryption

expansion

thespian

bosnian

bouillon

ottoman

peterman

puritan

phosphoric

ramadan

reptilian

arkansan

adhesion

collegian

collision

decision

dilution

duration

aleutian

cessation

exception

halogen

immersion

lecithin

location

narration

pollution

precession

precision

provision

recession

recision

rescission

secession

solution

vocation

whispering

inception

midshipman

malaysian

intention

caucasian

reversion

appian

biotin

carrion

clarion

cation

fabian

foramen

freudian

galleon

ghanaian

hawaiian

horizon

jovian

julian

libyan

malayan

marian

myosin

niacin

odeon

passover

permian

protean

saccharin

syrian

veteran

talisman

mispronounce

guncotton

dispersive

gooseberries

phosphorites

policeman

uncommon

aspirates

chairperson

aspartame

discussion

sensation

incision

invasion

infarction

coercion

neighboring

despairing

parisian

croatian

fruition

tuition

concussion

ablution

excision

eruption

fixation

foundation

menhaden

derision

aspirate

bandwagon

bedizen

bulletin

communion

digestion

discover

disparate

eleven

forgotten

gooseberry

indian

jacobin

keynesian

medicine

nonunion

overdone

overman

overrun

pelican

phosphorite

reunion

silicon

suggestion

unison

venison

wesleyan

dilation

ligation

volition

causation

flotation

confucian

notation

omission

commission

occasion

ovation

division

collusion

addition

allusion

audition

citation

clergyman

corruption

expiring

donation

exhaustion

evasion

mutation

negation

musician

edition

munition

percussion

perversion

petition

phoenician

precaution

physician

position

possession

predation

privation

profession

quotation

reaction

religion

revision

rotation

sedation

summation

combustion

tradition

venetian

backgammon

rhodopsin

raspberries

predestine

cheeseburgers

acumen

discovers

congestion

cohesion

italian

logician

magician

vermilion

gossiper

chilean

avian

nemean

simian

alien

gillian

congressman

median

lucifer

fenian

addiction

aegean

creation

admission

adoption

affection

asuncion

attention

cognition

collection

compassion

condition

confession

connection

connexion

contusion

dalmatian

damnation

deduction

disparage

emulsion

equation

impassion

inaction

lactation

occlusion

optation

optician

plantation

production

profusion

propulsion

protection

salvation

reduction

horatian

revulsion

seduction

selection

stagnation

tactician

fijian

scythian

stygian

transition

phrygian

expertly

gentleman

intestine

octillion

projection

saleswoman

truncation

cheeseburger

whisperer

cinnamon

jettison

affliction

confusion

elison

completion

concoction

conflation

compulsion

conduction

denizen

conclusion

confection

contention

convection

dogberry

convention

conviction

convulsion

declension

exaction

induction

nonhuman

pentathlon

presumption

resumption

singleton

translation

aquifer

bitumen

gossipers

transaction

receivers

takeovers

aspires

citizen

freemason

hackberry

raspberry

skeleton

deletion

delusion

elation

remission

relation

correction

emission

cremation

vacation

regimen

expressive

desertion

expressly

ingestion

neighborhood

illusion

imagine

exporters

cetacean

direction

flirtation

gradation

permission

sedition

clarendon

aquifers

enlighten

enliven

perfusion

genuine

in-person

taxpayers

complexion

whisperers

benjamin

compunction

defection

deflation

dentition

depiction

depletion

detection

detention

dictation

diffusion

dimension

election

englishman

eviction

exertion

ignition

neighborhoods

neighborly

neighbourly

prediction

perfection

preclusion

preemption

pretension

recover

prevention

rendition

receiver

retention

temptation

technician

takeover

seclusion

conjunction

egyptian

ejection

exporter

rejection

deflection

infection

inflation

inhuman

infusion

redemption

anyone

feminine

recovers

recovery

taxpayer

inclusion

invention

melanin

reflection

disappear

injection

reexports

disappears

disapprove

expires

expiry

exemption

inflection

infliction

injunction

decipher

high-powered

reexport

bishoprics

bookkeeper

bookkeepers

achiever

achievers

4 syllable words

macedonian

custodian

american

assyrian

hydrocarbon

ibuprofen

protozoan

aspiration

aberration

laceration

phosphorescence

aspirations

calibration

crucifixion

dislocation

fabrication

lubrication

accordion

ohioan

albanian

barbarian

copernican

dominican

estonian

eustachian

gorgonian

greco-roman

librarian

minnesotan

overburden

pavlovian

samaritan

desperation

disillusion

hibernation

assemblyman

isolation

mongolian

perspiration

oscillation

respiration

restoration

ulceration

vacillation

usurpation

arizonan

bavarian

criterion

fallopian

gregorian

collodion

coloradan

hyperion

napoleon

newtonian

missourian

liberian

iberian

planarian

plutonian

siberian

utopian

valerian

arbitration

consecration

misbegotten

consternation

contrarian

gastrulation

prohibition

reassertion

illustration

liberation

menstruation

ministration

transformation

transportation

hemoglobin

reciprocal

comparison

noblewoman

pedestrian

republican

nigerian

superhuman

publication

algonquian

abdication

insurrection

inspiration

oxidation

retrocession

abrogation

cancellation

conservation

consolation

carcinogen

celebration

consummation

desecration

disaffection

expiration

masturbation

observation

abyssinian

aspirated

cotyledon

contradiction

extrication

tasmanian

wagnerian

guatemalan

pagurian

watermelon

agrarian

alabaman

committeeman

obstetrician

sequestration

aldebaran

dandelion

darwinian

historian

obsidian

oblivion

nestorian

californian

equestrian

nonpartisan

abolition

disputation

decimation

diocesan

embarkation

desolation

devonian

draconian

dissipation

disinfection

dissertation

algerian

appalachian

evocation

habitation

hungarian

jubilation

expirations

exploration

floridian

galilean

jurisdiction

lancastrian

malformation

malnutrition

mammalian

misperception

ostentation

reawaken

satisfaction

sicilian

simonian

polynesian

supervision

arabian

canadian

chameleon

comedian

constellation

constipation

consultation

recitation

relocation

smithsonian

adrenaline

shakespearean

abnegation

aggravation

aggregation

disposition

distillation

approbation

dispiriting

emigration

estimation

excitation

exhibition

fibrillation

immigration

indonesian

insulation

congregation

experiment

protestation

athenian

registration

obligation

misgovernment

molestation

devastation

backwardation

duplication

penetration

statistician

leviathan

subdivision

tabulation

superstition

conflagration

extradition

armenian

contravention

diaspora

explication

exploitation

columbian

amphibian

introduction

nonprescription

indiscretion

misperceptions

whosoever

centurion

glaciation

jordanian

nicaraguan

paraguayan

penicillin

predetermine

sectarian

experience

disparaging

comprehension

experiments

dehydration

legislation

exhumation

condescension

confiscation

disinflation

installation

mortification

desiccation

correlation

expedition

perturbation

instigation

arthurian

exposition

electrician

integration

liquefaction

obfuscation

recreation

reproduction

corporation

expressionist

corp.

repercussion

introspection

reinspection

iranian

tamoxifen

interwoven

armageddon

expropriate

exuberance

exuberant

apprehension

low-spirited

disappearance

exhalation

european

experienced

praetorian

annexation

contraception

conversation

deformation

degradation

demarcation

deportation

depravation

depredation

deprivation

dereliction

exclamation

expectation

gargantuan

hegelian

impregnation

inattention

incrustation

infiltration

pelagian

polyhedron

relaxation

retardation

segregation

self-deception

tribulation

variation

meridian

moravian

vociferates

businesswoman

graduation

respirators

eritrean

asperity

victorian

peruvian

inhibition

disparity

desperadoes

desperately

derivation

intersection

devolution

resolution

revolution

exhortation

interception

formulation

importation

procreation

incarnation

infestation

manumission

octahedron

dissolution

fluoridation

irrigation

irritation

locomotion

valuation

subluxation

evolution

erudition

tetrahedron

mispronounces

incubation

disparities

exportable

dispirited

fluctuation

reciprocate

convolution

prostitution

destitution

indecision

bolivian

desperado

discoverer

discovery

himalayan

jacobean

maccabean

ordination

orchestration

persecution

combination

respirator

acquisition

prosecution

confrontation

elocution

lilliputian

absolution

vociferate

intercession

adoration

apparition

bohemian

coalition

coloration

corinthian

dietitian

foliation

ideation

moderation

operation

surrogation

toleration

violation

kindergarten

cyclopean

discoveries

esperanto

herculean

interurban

maturation

olympian

saturation

situation

reciprocates

gentlewoman

execution

punctuation

admiration

affirmation

excavation

annotation

allegation

allocation

animation

attribution

retribution

alteration

appellation

collocation

delegation

motivation

mutilation

realization

validation

readmission

dedication

defamation

hesitation

pacifier

dilatation

receivership

constitution

disconnection

coronation

imitation

immolation

inhalation

innovation

intuition

navigation

opposition

revelation

supposition

indexation

revocation

rumination

connotation

demolition

deposition

elevation

fascination

fumigation

gravitation

avocation

litigation

politician

propagation

substitution

machination

medication

meditation

preignition

proposition

suffocation

provocation

repetition

reposition

renovation

repossession

sanitation

education

vegetation

discoverers

modulation

crocodilian

adulation

agitation

cogitation

indigestion

acclamation

acclimation

accusation

activation

adaptation

admonition

advocation

affectation

altercation

alternation

ammunition

application

benediction

circulation

circumcision

commutation

competition

compilation

composition

confirmation

convocation

copenhagen

culmination

cultivation

designation

destination

disparages

emulation

equitation

granulation

hypertension

imposition

indication

interaction

interruption

intimation

invocation

liquidation

occupation

occupier

ovulation

pacifiers

palpitation

population

misconception

permutation

predilection

receiverships

reclamation

refutation

regulation

reputation

proclamation

replication

requisition

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8 syllable words

Words that rhyme with the word housebroken

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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