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

acting

action

belgian

brethren

diction

engine

faction

fiction

fraction

freshman

friction

gentian

mention

pension

question

resting

suction

tension

testing

traction

vesting

earthen

freshen

hessian

pathan

session

capstan

delphian

distance

distant

doctrine

dustman

headsman

pistons

victims

aspen

chapman

chestnut

emption

boston

chieftain

factions

gilden

footman

citron

gascon

fictions

billman

fountain

classman

alman

apron

billion

bullion

calvin

canyon

carton

chaplain

falcon

festoon

goodman

harten

hearten

kansan

lactone

linden

oxen

stockman

spartan

actions

sylvan

spearman

henchman

pitman

penguin

passman

patron

stallion

stillion

woodman

woolman

questions

tungsten

whitson

atman

austin

bagman

banyan

barton

crimson

custom

dalton

dampen

damson

ibsen

jasmine

lisbon

lockman

london

lynden

marten

martin

matron

mignon

milken

million

minion

molten

mountain

muslin

onion

pillion

pinion

ponton

runnion

saffron

samson

scallion

scullion

sequin

shakedown

shipman

shorten

silken

smarten

system

tartan

tillman

trillion

tubman

tuscan

undone

vulcan

wanton

alan

amman

baron

barren

basin

bason

bayman

beacon

beaten

begun

billon

bisson

boughten

bourbon

brazen

brighten

broken

burden

burdon

burman

cabin

caisson

canaan

cannon

canon

cayman

chasten

christen

cotton

cousin

craven

cretin

crouton

dagan

dagon

daman

deacon

dozen

dragon

driven

eaten

ermine

famine

fasten

firman

frighten

gallon

gammon

garron

german

gibbon

given

gladden

glidden

glisten

gluten

gotten

graven

griffon

happen

hasten

haven

heighten

hidden

hoten

jason

kalan

laden

lagan

layman

lichen

lighten

liken

linen

listen

locken

madden

maiden

mason

muffin

mullen

ninon

oven

pagan

person

prison

pullen

raven

ribbon

ridden

risen

riven

rotten

sadden

salmon

sermon

seton

shaman

spoken

stiffen

striven

sudden

sullen

summon

sweeten

talon

tappen

tighten

titan

token

toughen

triton

turban

urban

urson

villain

wagon

weaken

wheaten

whiten

woman

women

wooden

woolen

worsen

zaman

drunken

craftsman

extend

huntsman

basting

extent

sanction

auction

bushman

christian

churchman

casting

dungeon

dutchman

listing

function

lasting

flashgun

vestment

hangman

luncheon

mangan

mustang

rincon

shrunken

sunken

bookstand

draftsman

junction

tasting

twisting

wasting

ashen

asian

astound

bludgeon

burgeon

cajun

chestnuts

children

cushion

customs

dudgeon

fashion

fission

grandson

gudgeon

haitian

kitchen

klansman

lampron

landman

mahone

marchman

markman

mission

nation

passion

persian

pigeon

portman

postman

prussian

ration

rayon

russian

salesman

shakedowns

sixteen

spokesman

statesman

station

sturgeon

suasion

surgeon

systems

urchin

urine

version

vision

gumption

bookstands

listings

extends

auctions

vestments

castings

mustangs

tastings

alban

arson

bargain

boatman

bolden

carbon

carman

carmine

chastened

copeman

corban

cordon

darken

dobson

dolman

dolphin

dukedom

fastened

faulcon

fibrin

fielden

fireman

foreman

freedman

garden

golden

gorgon

harden

harken

hastens

heightens

houseman

jargon

jordan

jorden

lightens

lightman

lineman

linemen

listens

lopeman

marlin

minden

morgan

mormon

newsman

norman

octane

olden

organ

orphan

outdone

outrun

pardon

parson

pastime

ragtime

sharpen

shearman

shotgun

sistine

soldan

sovereign

sovran

squadron

stallman

sustain

tarpon

tightens

union

warden

wisdom

extinct

astounds

landsman

marksman

sixteens

sportsman

coachman

coasting

asthma

caption

bison

auden

blowgun

cheapen

hoven

human

bastion

hymen

costing

mansion

hyphen

hyson

hausen

bobbin

bollen

bowman

broaden

brogan

freeman

frozen

hogan

leman

chosen

moisten

pavon

boasting

semen

syphon

toman

treason

trodden

yaupon

yeoman

steven

woven

hosting

rerun

poison

pollan

pollen

longan

swollen

stolen

showman

colon

watchman

common

crewman

cuban

cumin

deepen

dromon

eighteen

elan

demon

eden

fallen

liven

logan

posting

foreign

loosen

odin

often

reason

omen

open

toasting

floren

leven

liman

proven

loren

lumen

lyden

riden

roman

othman

rosen

ripen

robin

ousting

rosin

rumen

seaman

season

solon

shogun

siphon

siren

sodden

soften

thousand

slogan

warren

widen

roasting

wizen

sixteenth

seedsman

sustains

baldwin

bordman

cauldron

horseman

pastimes

sustained

homespun

oarsman

scotsman

townsman

yachtsman

caution

fighting

fusion

grecian

heathen

legion

lesion

lighting

lotion

motion

notion

ocean

potion

region

sighting

trojan

yachting

bastions

postings

dian

sixteenths

cowan

gowan

ion

lion

mayan

owen

paean

peon

ruin

rowen

zion

rowan

scion

disdain

eighteens

esteem

eyestone

keystone

nighttime

peacetime

guardsman

portion

eighteenth

faustian

fightings

fortune

georgian

lightning

margin

martian

torsion

option

sightings

disdained

disdains

keystones

nighttimes

right-hand

lightnings

postmark

costume

costumes

distinct

touchdown

distend

nightmares

touchdowns

nightmare

3 syllable words

bedouin

carrion

clarion

heroin

heroine

marian

saccharin

veteran

direction

lecithin

correction

decadent

destinies

enlighten

guncotton

hesitant

mexican

predestine

tectonic

ferryman

jacobin

specimen

lesbian

forgotten

fustian

thespian

vatican

bulletin

denizen

elison

anyone

jettison

kantian

medicine

pelican

venison

puritan

wesleyan

affection

collection

connection

connexion

defection

dentition

detection

dictation

dissection

election

erection

gestation

lactation

perfection

protection

resection

sectional

selection

tactician

technician

temptation

occasion

arian

biotin

corruption

avian

alien

cation

chilean

vacation

appian

ghanaian

fabian

foramen

clergyman

percussion

hawaiian

libyan

questioner

galleon

gillian

horizon

regimen

malayan

permian

plebeian

simian

reaction

moroccan

samoan

cessation

narration

syrian

tamarin

badminton

crestfallen

decadents

ejection

extender

gentleman

intestine

projection

reptilian

testament

extortion

rejection

tectonics

abduction

acumen

aegean

african

backgammon

bedridden

chairperson

chairwoman

confection

convection

decedent

deflection

derision

enliven

estimate

everyone

genuine

infection

mistaken

parisian

pentathlon

phrygian

rebellion

rectangle

reflection

residence

resident

scythian

stygian

talisman

unbutton

uncertain

uncommon

unwritten

vermilion

victimize

addiction

attention

andean

preclusion

pretension

questioners

albion

eleven

depiction

dissension

prediction

preemption

reduction

feminine

halcyon

hammerman

injection

accession

garrison

ascension

cistercian

detention

dimension

discussion

perception

prevention

questionnaire

reactions

indian

plantation

contagion

exciting

occlusion

excitement

uneven

contusion

crustacean

excision

inaction

macadam

extenders

eviction

keynesian

ramadan

accretion

reception

liechtenstein

mandarin

equating

melanin

deduction

equation

lanolin

anchorman

benjamin

concussion

deception

fictional

fixation

incursion

extraction

laurentian

javelin

menhaden

production

jamaican

rendition

bedizen

seduction

adrian

assassin

secretion

awaken

beethoven

bitumen

campion

seclusion

taxation

catalan

vacations

objection

champion

cinnamon

cyprian

determine

nevadan

retention

citizen

silicon

sensation

testaments

nicotine

suburban

toboggan

zambian

succession

customer

adhesion

countryman

digestion

distances

estimates

harlequin

octillion

residents

extension

complexion

encryption

sustenance

extrusion

inflection

inspection

rectangles

suggestion

decedents

masculine

franciscan

truncation

accident

emblazon

embolden

addition

aleutian

allusion

assertion

aversion

besetting

caucasian

cetacean

collegian

collision

collusion

commission

commotion

decision

deletion

delusion

desertion

devotion

division

duration

edition

elation

emission

emotion

erosion

evasion

fisherman

flirtation

halogen

illusion

imagine

immersion

locating

location

malaysian

negation

permission

petition

phoenician

physician

pollution

position

possession

precaution

precession

predation

procession

profession

promotion

provision

recession

recision

religion

rescission

reversion

secession

sedation

sedition

solution

summation

ticketing

tradition

venetian

visiting

vocation

gaussian

grobian

astounding

attraction

freudian

fastener

fenian

myosin

korean

diffraction

inception

intrusion

invention

irian

castration

nemean

dorian

median

frustration

induction

intention

redemption

aryan

questionnaires

listener

retraction

jovian

suspension

julian

niacin

affliction

anglican

conception

conclusion

concoction

conduction

contention

contortion

contrition

convention

conviction

declension

odeon

equations

distortion

protean

reopen

nubian

filtration

excursion

inclusion

exaction

exception

singleton

transaction

orion

uterine

abandon

abdomen

alaskan

artisan

austrian

battalion

brazilian

civilian

customers

customize

cambrian

capsaicin

chamberlain

charlatan

clarendon

cohesion

corsican

discipline

dissidence

dissident

dominion

guesstimate

in-person

logician

italian

lumberman

magdalen

magician

medallion

nobleman

opinion

partisan

pavilion

perfusion

policeman

rifleman

sumatran

timberman

unburden

accidents

fruition

lutheran

tuition

coercion

backwoodsman

congestion

extensive

ingestion

horatian

corrosion

creation

extensions

croatian

laotian

fijian

ablation

ablution

abortion

abrasion

admission

adoption

aggression

ambition

apportion

artesian

aspersion

astonish

attrition

auctioneer

beholden

cartesian

compassion

concession

condition

confession

conversion

deflation

depletion

depression

diffusion

digression

dispersion

emulsion

eruption

exceeding

exertion

extinction

ignition

impassion

incision

insertion

invasion

inversion

irishman

lastingly

locations

misshapen

obsession

oppression

optation

oxygen

patrician

positions

profusion

progression

proportion

propulsion

regression

repression

revulsion

submersion

submission

subversion

succeeding

suppression

suspicion

transition

vocations

contraction

contraption

exclusion

bosnian

abstention

excretion

explosion

exemption

expansion

infarction

infliction

infraction

prescription

academe

acetone

begotten

bouillon

echidna

fasteners

subtraction

collagen

restriction

freemason

expression

gravamen

listeners

ottoman

overdone

overman

gordian

description

guardian

overrun

peterman

destruction

reunion

scorpion

solomon

unison

distraction

expulsion

superman

vitamin

waterman

dissidents

arkansan

communion

companion

councilman

disunion

downtrodden

egyptian

occident

nebraskan

snapdragon

muskmelon

astounded

bandwagon

ambrosian

albumin

etruscan

handwoven

guesstimates

imprison

istanbul

saleswoman

unbroken

distinction

extinctions

oration

assumption

privation

probation

auctioneers

completion

compression

compulsion

confucian

inflation

infusion

inhuman

ovation

citation

origin

parthian

combustion

conflation

confusion

convulsion

discretion

disruption

exhaustion

implosion

impression

midshipman

misfortune

misprision

presumption

transmission

audition

resumption

causation

fastening

flotation

gradation

ligation

lightening

listening

rotation

nonhuman

revision

gyration

omission

precision

relation

remission

prostration

cremation

dilation

diversion

donation

margarine

munition

musician

mutation

notation

perversion

quotation

volition

abstraction

conscription

constriction

construction

inscription

instruction

subscription

obstruction

transcription

australian

rhodopsin

alderman

distinctions

extinguish

forbidden

forewoman

porcelain

bystander

cardigan

charwoman

absorption

adsorption

alsatian

asuncion

carnation

cognition

congressman

consumption

dalmatian

damnation

distinctive

fastenings

formation

foundation

hydration

hydrogen

libration

migration

nitrogen

nutrition

optician

partition

persuasion

proscription

salvation

stagnation

starvation

transgression

vibration

compunction

distinguish

englishman

extinguished

pseudonym

bystanders

housebroken

outspoken

postnatal

nonunion

disdainful

conjunction

injunction

dilution

translation

heartbroken

distinguished

pseudonyms

systemic

transfusion

distinctly

nightingale

nightmarish

norwegian

postmaster

toastmaster

costumer

right-handed

postmasters

costumers

distemper

asthmatics

asthmatic

post-mortem

4 syllable words

sectarian

meridian

corinthian

decoration

affectation

centurion

equitation

eritrean

estonian

excitation

greco-roman

hesitancy

nestorian

recantation

samaritan

testimony

victorian

allocation

revocation

arizonan

planarian

jacobean

maccabean

recitation

recreation

medication

meditation

reelection

hesitation

levitation

repetition

restoration

bavarian

draconian

resurrection

galilean

dedication

desiccation

declaration

avocation

preelection

federation

generation

leviathan

preparation

rhetorician

agitation

separation

surrogation

education

estonians

pedestrian

variation

hesitantly

vegetation

reparation

testimonies

veneration

electrician

moravian

peruvian

abyssinian

agrarian

alabaman

aldebaran

activation

dereliction

desecration

persecution

barbarian

penetration

graduation

insurrection

predilection

glaciation

refutation

replication

restitution

interurban

requisition

herculean

historian

reputation

adaptation

molestation

destination

devastation

penicillin

reexamine

residency

destitution

benediction

disaffection

accordion

amphibian

protestation

reclamation

american

recognition

committeeman

copernican

custodian

dandelion

recollection

expiration

exhibition

estimator

eustachian

application

maturation

minnesotan

nicaraguan

paraguayan

advocation

estimation

ventilation

librarian

elocution

fabrication

saturation

wagnerian

speculation

abdication

annexation

sequestration

extradition

expectation

exploitation

extrication

ohioan

abolition

algerian

allegation

animation

decimation

annotation

appalachian

appellation

bifurcation

collocation

defamation

delegation

demolition

deposition

derivation

desolation

desperation

detonation

devolution

dictionary

dilatation

dissertation

elevation

erudition

evolution

gravitation

habitation

hungarian

imitation

intuition

irritation

limitation

navigation

preservation

provocation

reformation

renovation

repercussion

reservation

resolution

respiration

revelation

revolution

sanitation

suffocation

trepidation

vacillation

equestrian

gentlewoman

validation

visitation

academy

arabian

assyrian

augmentation

bolivian

canadian

chameleon

collodion

coloradan

comedian

criterion

destinations

devonian

dichotomy

disconnection

disinfection

embarkation

estimations

european

excavation

execution

exhortation

expedition

exploration

exposition

fallopian

floridian

gregorian

himalayan

hyperion

iberian

imperfection

incantation

indentation

indexation

infestation

interdiction

intersection

iranian

lancastrian

liberian

mammalian

menstruation

missourian

napoleon

ostentation

reawaken

rectangular

reinspection

siberian

sicilian

simonian

valerian

adrenaline

adulation

contrarian

estimable

estimated

estimators

macedonian

interwoven

residences

shakespearean

cogitation

comparison

fluctuation

misbegotten

tamoxifen

apparition

dietitian

pelagian

prohibition

reassertion

miseration

nigerian

violation

coloration

athenian

iteration

exhalation

extendible

interjection

liberation

registration

bohemian

hegelian

coalition

abnegation

abrogation

absolution

acclamation

acclimation

accusation

acquisition

actionable

aggravation

aggregation

algonquian

altercation

approbation

backwardation

calibration

cancellation

celebration

circulation

circumcision

convocation

crucifixion

cultivation

degradation

depravation

depredation

deprivation

designation

dictionaries

dislocation

distillation

duplication

emigration

emulation

granulation

hypertension

inattention

indication

interaction

intermission

interruption

intimation

intonation

invitation

invocation

liquidation

lubrication

masturbation

incrustation

palpitation

circumspection

permutation

prosecution

questionable

regulation

relaxation

retrocession

superhuman

explanation

explication

publication

segregation

syndication

exclamation

resignation

tabulation

vaccination

vindication

academies

albanian

customary

darwinian

jordanian

misdemeanor

columbian

cyclopean

dominican

overburden

pagurian

predetermine

olympian

watermelon

oblivion

obsidian

pavlovian

situation

tasmanian

accidental

assemblyman

astonishing

californian

extenuate

exhumation

kindergarten

legislation

rhododendron

syncopation

occidental

arthurian

correlation

definition

retribution

alteration

connotation

disillusion

dissipation

dissolution

emanation

evocation

figuration

fluoridation

fumigation

isolation

immolation

inhalation

innovation

irrigation

jubilation

legitimate

legitimize

litigation

locomotion

reproduction

machination

melanesian

mitigation

opposition

oscillation

perturbation

propagation

realization

relocation

reposition

punctuation

repossession

segmentation

readmission

subluxation

preignition

proposition

rumination

substitution

politician

polynesian

premonition

procreation

smithsonian

supervision

amputation

attribution

circumvention

introspection

calculation

complication

condescension

confiscation

consecration

consultation

disputation

gastrulation

illustration

importation

imputation

incarnation

inclination

inquisition

installation

titillation

implication

instigation

obfuscation

tetrahedron

liquefaction

ministration

misperception

octahedron

supposition

intervention

jurisdiction

transportation

ulceration

institution

integration

interception

apprehension

armageddon

crocodilian

customizes

diocesan

extensively

hemoglobin

incubation

indigestion

misdemeanors

modulation

newtonian

noblewoman

plutonian

praetorian

protozoan

republican

residencies

strangulation

sustainable

utopian

competition

alternation

ammunition

carcinogen

commutation

compilation

composition

consolation

consummation

convolution

culmination

demarcation

disposition

deportation

exceedingly

fibrillation

simulation

stimulation

stipulation

astonishment

gargantuan

statistician

subdivision

contraception

superstition

contradiction

contravention

distribution

self-deception

aberration

adoration

imposition

information

introduction

admonition

indecision

inspiration

insulation

indonesian

infiltration

intercession

ovulation

oxidation

impregnation

presentation

lilliputian

aviation

foliation

laceration

deviation

ideation

mediation

moderation

orchestration

perforation

immigration

obligation

occupation

polyhedron

population

proclamation

implantation

prostitution

residential

operation

tribulation

radiation

toleration

conjugation

dehydration

nonpartisan

comprehension

extinguisher

ostensible

ostensibly

businesswoman

hydrocarbon

inhibition

gorgonian

academic

cotyledon

isotonic

transplantation

armenian

guatemalan

admiration

aspiration

corporation

arbitration

affirmation

corp.

diminution

pigmentation

fascination

germination

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8 syllable words

Words that rhyme with the word nekton

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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