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Rhymes Here is a list of the words that rhyme with the word kansan.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

action

bastion

caption

dancing

drunken

dungeon

engine

faction

flashgun

fraction

gentian

longan

luncheon

mention

pension

shrunken

sunken

tension

traction

ashen

asian

fashion

mahone

passion

persian

ration

suasion

sanction

pathan

version

banking

capstan

caxton

headsman

lampron

lengthen

mankind

nanking

oarsman

ransoms

salesman

strengthen

tangents

airman

alban

bellman

benzene

benzine

boston

brakeman

carbon

carman

carmine

carton

chairman

chanson

chessman

chevron

gorgon

hanging

harden

harken

harten

headman

hearten

hempen

hetman

houseman

jargon

jetson

jordan

jorden

keelson

linden

lockman

lynden

m1

marlin

kelson

kelvin

kirkman

kremlin

lightman

marten

martin

matron

apron

arson

austin

banging

bargain

barton

clinton

corban

cordon

crimson

dalton

darken

desman

dobson

dolman

dolphin

enzyme

faulcon

fibrin

fireman

foreman

garden

melton

minion

morgan

mormon

muslin

dungeons

orphan

outdone

outrun

oxen

engines

nekton

organ

henchman

tensions

tungsten

vengeance

norman

pardon

ancient

conscience

luncheons

pensions

pungent

sanguine

parson

penguin

patron

pectin

pinion

pressman

scullion

selden

sharpen

shorten

shotgun

smarten

sovereign

sovran

spartan

squadron

stallman

stepson

stockman

sultan

union

workman

penchant

tarpon

tartan

teston

tubman

tuscan

vulcan

warden

auden

bacon

basin

bayman

beckon

bellon

bison

bobbin

bollen

boughten

bourbon

breton

brighten

broaden

burden

burdon

burman

burton

button

caisson

cayman

certain

charon

chasten

chosen

common

cotton

craven

curtain

dagan

dagon

daman

deaden

deafen

devon

ermine

fallen

felon

firman

floren

foreign

frighten

frozen

german

gotten

graven

hasten

haven

heaven

heighten

heron

hymen

hyphen

hyson

jason

jetton

kalan

laden

layman

leaden

leaven

ledden

lemon

lessen

lesson

lichen

lighten

liken

liman

linen

liven

locken

loren

lyden

maiden

marron

mason

melon

muffin

mullen

mutton

ninon

often

oven

pagan

pavon

perron

person

poison

pollan

pollen

prison

raven

reason

reckon

redden

riden

ripen

risen

robin

rosen

rotten

satan

season

sermon

seven

shaken

shaman

siphon

siren

sodden

soften

straighten

sudden

sullen

summon

syphon

taken

threaten

tighten

titan

toughen

treason

triton

trodden

turban

urban

urson

vegan

waken

warren

weapon

whiten

widen

worsen

yaupon

zaman

zircon

bouncing

brethren

churchman

fortune

auction

belgian

craftsman

function

guardsman

dutchman

freshman

margin

martian

georgian

option

othman

pouncing

portion

suction

torsion

draftsman

question

section

watchman

flexion

huntsman

junction

hangings

rincon

faustian

fencing

mankinds

ancients

baldwin

bludgeon

bordman

burgeon

cajun

cauldron

caution

cowan

delphian

dian

doctrine

dudgeon

dustman

earthen

enzymes

freshen

fusion

gowan

gudgeon

haitian

hessian

horseman

ion

kinsman

launching

lesion

lion

marchman

markman

mayan

nation

nonsense

penguins

portman

prussian

rayon

russian

scion

scotsman

seedsman

session

sexton

smacking

statesman

station

sturgeon

surgeon

urchin

urine

vision

yachtsman

zion

emption

gumption

billion

billman

boatman

bolden

bookman

bullion

chieftain

citron

copeman

fielden

footman

freedman

gilden

golden

goodman

ibsen

income

lisbon

lonesome

longing

lopeman

mignon

milken

million

molten

monsoon

newsman

olden

pillion

piston

pitman

sequin

shearman

shipman

silken

soldan

spearman

stillion

sylvan

tillman

trillion

whitson

winsome

woodman

woolman

launchings

marksman

sportsman

mincing

moonshine

fiction

inchon

bushman

christian

benign

ginseng

begun

bitten

blowgun

beacon

beaten

billon

bisson

bowman

brogan

broken

friction

briton

coachman

cheapen

chicken

christen

colon

enjoin

cretin

crewman

crouton

cuban

cumin

deacon

deepen

demon

elan

driven

dromon

eaten

eden

diction

freeman

gibbon

given

glidden

glisten

gluten

griffon

hidden

hogan

hoten

hoven

human

kitten

leman

leven

listen

logan

loosen

lumen

mitten

moisten

odin

omen

open

proven

pullen

quicken

rerun

ribbon

ridden

riven

roman

rumen

seaman

semen

seton

shogun

showman

sicken

slogan

solon

spoken

steven

stiffen

stolen

stricken

striven

conjoin

smitten

sweeten

toman

weaken

wincing

thicken

swollen

token

villain

wheaten

wiccan

woman

wooden

women

woolen

woven

written

yeoman

incense

incomes

postman

pinching

children

homespun

longings

spokesman

cushion

fission

gingham

grecian

heathen

kitchen

knocking

legion

lotion

mission

motion

notion

ocean

pigeon

potion

region

sneezing

trojan

conjoined

owen

paean

rowan

rowen

ruin

peon

insane

incensed

ensconce

ginghams

ensnare

smoking

sneaking

ensnares

ensnarl

unknowns

ringneck

monsoons

demesne

enchant

longhand

consume

unknown

unseen

punkin

sunshine

consent

consumed

consumes

encamp

knickknacks

lunching

unkind

unsound

consents

unkempt

singing

knickknack

ringing

sinking

thinking

3 syllable words

appian

arian

transition

cation

galleon

ghanaian

saccharin

tamarin

corrosion

derision

parisian

arkansan

abandon

denizens

keynesians

transaction

translation

albion

amazon

garrison

campion

javelin

zambian

catalan

champion

halcyon

hammerman

jacobin

jainism

vatican

venison

uneven

anyone

bosnian

mannequin

monism

ramadan

anchorman

ascension

attention

contusion

conversion

damnation

laurentian

manganese

plantation

stagnation

alien

biotin

carrion

dorian

allusion

aryan

clarion

aversion

bedouin

gaussian

hawaiian

heroin

heroine

horizon

korean

collusion

marian

collision

irian

niacin

diversion

caucasian

permian

plebeian

veteran

halogen

myosin

fenian

foramen

samoan

malaysian

pensioner

venetian

provision

avian

occasion

perversion

phoenician

reaction

fabian

adhesion

ambrosian

badminton

bandwagon

companion

handwoven

jansenist

transfusion

transgression

franciscan

abdomen

african

alaskan

anglican

artisan

backgammon

banishment

battalion

cambrian

capsaicin

conclusion

confusion

declension

dominion

enlighten

enliven

genuine

guncotton

horatian

italian

laotian

magdalen

management

mannequins

medallion

monisms

opinion

partisan

perfusion

senescence

suspension

talisman

transmission

unburden

unbutton

uncertain

uncommon

unwritten

vanishing

admission

affection

artesian

aspersion

collection

concussion

condition

detention

indian

concession

dissection

dissension

subversion

suburban

incursion

invasion

inversion

pensioners

persuasion

phoenicians

pretension

prevention

profusion

submersion

abrasion

alsatian

connection

connexion

contagion

foundation

incision

benjamin

cognition

dentition

engineer

menhaden

occlusion

rendition

retention

selection

sensation

cinnamon

ambition

coenzyme

collagen

ferryman

fustian

reunion

solomon

dimension

protection

citizen

gordian

gravamen

guardian

elison

confession

carnation

cartesian

dalmatian

inaction

lactation

oncoming

salvation

scorpion

tactician

technician

awaken

bedizen

jansenists

taxation

adrian

backwoodsman

assassin

beethoven

determine

jamaican

ottoman

toboggan

unison

vitamin

waterman

wesleyan

jettison

lesbian

nevadan

thespian

albumin

amazement

consonant

digestion

emblazon

gentleman

masculine

nebraskan

saleswoman

snapdragon

suggestion

abstention

projection

communion

countryman

downtrodden

managements

councilman

nonunion

truncation

expansion

unbroken

unconcern

addition

aleutian

amazing

angina

assertion

audition

causation

cessation

citation

clergyman

collegian

commission

commotion

decision

dilation

dilution

direction

division

donation

edition

correction

corruption

delusion

ensuing

erosion

evasion

flirtation

gradation

gyration

illusion

imagine

immersion

ligation

munition

narration

negation

ongoing

oration

origin

parthian

permission

petition

privation

physician

pollution

position

possession

precision

predation

procession

profession

promotion

recision

rescission

reversion

revision

sedation

solution

summation

tradition

vacation

abduction

median

gillian

jovian

julian

moroccan

protean

nubian

attraction

grobian

reopen

libyan

malayan

freudian

castration

nemean

chilean

odeon

conception

concoction

conflation

simian

conduction

confection

confucian

connexions

contention

contortion

contrition

convection

convention

conviction

convulsion

diffraction

syrian

engenders

engineers

enjoyment

exaction

inclusion

infusion

intrusion

nonhuman

omniscient

pentathlon

pungently

punishment

retraction

acumen

alderman

austrian

bedridden

brazilian

cardigan

chairperson

chairwoman

chamberlain

charlatan

charwoman

civilian

cohesion

consummate

corsican

damaging

discipline

encumber

everyone

forbidden

forewoman

in-person

inasmuch

innocence

innocent

jamaicans

lumberman

magician

nobleman

pavilion

policeman

porcelain

predestine

rebellion

renaissance

rhodopsin

rifleman

sumatran

unisons

vermilion

fijian

aegean

amusement

australian

coercion

phrygian

stygian

concentrate

congestion

consonants

enchanting

objection

enchantment

tangential

scythian

creation

croatian

unconcerned

fruition

transcription

tuition

ablation

ablution

abortion

accession

accretion

addiction

adoption

aggression

apportion

amusing

attrition

commissioned

commissions

compassion

crustacean

deception

deduction

defection

detection

diffusion

digression

dispersion

election

emulsion

engender

equation

erection

eruption

excision

exertion

formation

gestation

hydration

hydrogen

ignition

imagined

imagines

impassion

incoming

insertion

irishman

libration

migration

nitrogen

norwegian

obsession

oppression

optation

optician

oxygen

partition

patrician

perception

perfection

preclusion

preemption

production

progression

proportion

propulsion

reception

reduction

regression

resection

revulsion

seclusion

secretion

seduction

starvation

submission

succession

suppression

suspicion

temptation

vibration

complexion

contraption

encryption

enjoyments

bitumen

bouillon

bulletin

congressman

contraction

freemason

forgotten

distraction

medicine

extension

subtraction

keratin

infraction

punishments

cyprian

eleven

feminine

melanin

absorption

overdone

overrun

pelican

consumption

overman

peterman

puritan

silicon

skeleton

specimen

superman

disunion

consummates

ejection

embolden

ensemble

etruscan

harlequin

housebroken

imprison

innocents

intestine

muskmelon

octillion

outspoken

rejection

reptilian

amusements

concentrates

affliction

devotion

margarine

elation

omission

vocation

volition

probation

assumption

recession

duration

fisherman

musician

mutation

percussion

quotation

rotation

sedition

completion

compression

congenial

consciences

deflection

flotation

precaution

secession

combustion

precession

compulsion

disruption

ovation

relation

deletion

location

notation

regimen

distortion

enchanted

emission

cetacean

cremation

exception

emotion

lawmaking

religion

excursion

exhaustion

remission

frustration

lecithin

induction

infection

inflation

intention

invention

desertion

implosion

inception

inhuman

misfortune

misprision

prostration

redemption

reflection

singleton

abstraction

conjunction

extraction

uterine

conscription

constriction

construction

orion

clarendon

ensembles

ingestion

injection

encounter

finishing

logician

heartbroken

longingly

incumbent

mexican

mistaken

uncomplete

timberman

adsorption

asuncion

beholden

cistercian

conjunctions

deflation

depiction

depletion

depression

destruction

dictation

discussion

emissions

eviction

exclusion

exemption

explosion

expulsion

extortion

extrusion

fixation

infarction

inflection

infliction

ingenue

inspection

lutheran

misshapen

nutrition

omissions

prediction

prescription

remissions

repression

crestfallen

englishman

enigma

egyptian

encounters

compunction

incentive

encampment

distinction

insincere

limousine

incumbents

injunction

inscription

instruction

obstruction

subscription

midshipman

nincompoop

resumption

filtration

impression

presumption

discretion

long-winded

incomplete

encampments

extinction

amazons

injunctions

proscription

expression

excretion

description

restriction

nincompoops

enchanter

enchanters

uncanny

limousines

ringmaster

benignly

consumer

honeycomb

sunshiny

consumers

ungainly

tumescent

unseemly

consuming

concentric

4 syllable words

manzanilla

abyssinian

albanian

copernican

dandelion

jordanian

tasmanian

wagnerian

arabian

iranian

planarian

animation

bavarian

maccabean

polynesian

coloradan

galilean

mammalian

sanitation

annotation

canadian

draconian

jacobean

hibernation

zionism

athenian

coloration

laceration

adrenaline

generation

moderation

jansenism

aberration

adoration

apparition

corinthian

macedonian

veneration

operation

toleration

meridian

moravian

peruvian

hypertension

cancellation

agrarian

annexation

alabaman

amphibian

american

barbarian

granulation

aldebaran

armenian

gargantuan

centurion

acquisition

accusation

algonquian

darwinian

dominican

estonian

gorgonian

graduation

librarian

maturation

pavlovian

penicillin

samaritan

saturation

alternation

watermelon

abnegation

admiration

affirmation

abolition

algerian

allocation

appalachian

appellation

aspiration

allegation

alteration

avocation

californian

corp.

mongolian

gravitation

habitation

manumission

preignition

proposition

vacillation

rhododendron

renovation

validation

valuation

nonpartisan

supervision

supposition

corporation

connotation

hungarian

navigation

opposition

readmission

ulceration

arizonan

assyrian

augmentation

chameleon

circumvention

collodion

comedian

criterion

devonian

diocesan

european

fallopian

floridian

gregorian

hyperion

iberian

incantation

lancastrian

liberian

malnutrition

missourian

monogamy

napoleon

newtonian

ostentation

plutonian

praetorian

protozoan

reawaken

siberian

simonian

transformation

transportation

valerian

adulation

comparison

contrarian

transplantation

agitation

pedestrian

tamoxifen

apprehension

strangulation

aviation

coalition

commissioner

decoration

dietitian

federation

ideation

iteration

leviathan

liberation

nigerian

pelagian

perforation

preparation

prohibition

radiation

reassertion

reparation

rhetorician

separation

surrogation

variation

violation

abdication

abrogation

absolution

acclamation

acclimation

activation

adaptation

admonition

advocation

affectation

aggravation

aggregation

altercation

ammunition

application

approbation

backwardation

benediction

calibration

carcinogen

circumcision

composition

confirmation

conservation

consolation

convolution

fabrication

indecision

masturbation

consummation

conversation

convocation

disaffection

indonesian

interaction

observation

palpitation

implantation

penetration

predilection

recognition

recollection

relaxation

statistician

subdivision

tabulation

vaccination

ventilation

accordion

anaconda

columbian

cotyledon

custodian

cyclopean

committeeman

encomium

eritrean

eustachian

glaciation

greco-roman

herculean

minnesotan

nestorian

oblivion

overburden

guatemalan

gymnasium

historian

insanity

interurban

nicaraguan

obsidian

pagurian

paraguayan

reexamine

sectarian

victorian

assemblyman

concomitant

conjugation

consonantal

engineering

elongation

gentlewoman

tangentially

unconverted

comprehension

calculation

arthurian

collocation

commissioners

delegation

liquefaction

demolition

encompassing

deposition

gastrulation

derivation

desiccation

desolation

desperation

devolution

dilatation

disillusion

dissertation

dissolution

elevation

erudition

evolution

fascination

figuration

fluoridation

propagation

locomotion

politician

reservation

smithsonian

amputation

innovation

litigation

resolution

respiration

restoration

resurrection

rumination

attribution

intuition

irrigation

exhortation

satisfaction

inhalation

isolation

jubilation

levitation

oscillation

inquisition

perspiration

revelation

revocation

revolution

suffocation

fragmentation

perturbation

trepidation

constitution

imitation

immolation

ohioan

bifurcation

constellation

decimation

hesitation

motivation

consternation

constipation

consultation

malformation

declaration

machination

dedication

defamation

medication

meditation

menacingly

menstruation

mutilation

correlation

preelection

preservation

punctuation

provocation

recreation

reelection

reformation

condemnation

condensation

realization

recitation

repetition

reposition

unassuming

usurpation

condescension

confiscation

consecration

repossession

armageddon

bolivian

cogitation

concentrated

congregation

conjunctiva

consensual

consumable

crocodilian

education

encomiums

fluctuation

gymnasiums

hemoglobin

himalayan

innocently

inseminate

interwoven

misbegotten

modulation

noblewoman

noncommittal

noncompliance

pagination

republican

shakespearean

sicilian

utopian

vegetation

compilation

competition

culmination

cultivation

devastation

elocution

refutation

simulation

reclamation

regulation

deviation

foliation

hegelian

homogeny

celebration

congenital

emigration

equitation

estimation

excitation

exhibition

expiration

immigration

imposition

inattention

prosecution

prostitution

protestation

publication

segregation

speculation

vindication

combination

depredation

desecration

designation

destination

destitution

deprivation

dereliction

disposition

retardation

retrocession

superhuman

superstition

syndication

circulation

commutation

deformation

degradation

demarcation

deportation

depravation

distillation

duplication

emulation

replication

reputation

requisition

resignation

restitution

stimulation

stipulation

tribulation

circumspection

indication

contravention

conflagration

contraception

contradiction

information

insulation

insurrection

confrontation

contemplation

impregnation

intercession

invocation

nonessential

concentration

contribution

interruption

invitation

oxidation

intonation

noncommercial

ordination

permutation

persecution

presentation

miseration

intimation

ovulation

intermission

bohemian

inspiration

lilliputian

molestation

obligation

polyhedron

mediation

occupation

proclamation

self-deception

population

incumbency

nonconformist

encompasses

equestrian

hydrocarbon

dehydration

businesswoman

ibuprofen

inhibition

legislation

nonsensical

kindergarten

syncopation

concentrations

situation

olympian

incinerate

predetermine

coronation

definition

detonation

evocation

germination

excavation

execution

homogenize

installation

fumigation

instigation

dissipation

jurisdiction

octahedron

domination

segmentation

tetrahedron

emanation

obfuscation

irritation

compensation

complication

decompression

disinfection

disinflation

embarkation

limitation

electrician

expedition

subluxation

integration

interception

intervention

substitution

interdiction

intersection

nonconformists

institution

melanesian

arbitration

mitigation

nomination

premonition

relocation

repercussion

visitation

termination

computation

exploration

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8 syllable words

Words that rhyme with the word kansan

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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