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1 syllable words
2 syllable words

baton

batten

batton

beacon

beckon

bellon

boughten

brighten

burton

certain

charon

cheapen

cotton

cousin

crouton

curtain

deacon

deaden

deafen

deepen

demon

devon

dozen

eden

elan

fatten

felon

flatten

freeman

frighten

gluten

gotten

heaven

heighten

heron

hoten

latin

leaden

leaven

ledden

leman

lemon

lessen

lesson

leven

lighten

marron

melon

muffin

mullen

oven

patten

perron

platen

platten

pullen

reason

reckon

redden

rerun

resin

rotten

satan

satin

seaman

season

semen

seven

steven

straighten

sudden

sullen

summon

tighten

titan

toughen

treason

triton

vegan

weaken

weapon

whiten

woman

wooden

woolen

christian

diction

fiction

friction

rincon

squinting

paean

peon

bludgeon

cushion

dudgeon

earthen

freshen

grecian

gudgeon

heathen

hessian

legion

lesion

pathan

prussian

region

russian

session

lengthen

children

intend

sexton

strengthen

intense

intent

dustman

sentence

acton

airman

atman

austin

barton

baston

bellman

boatman

bookman

boston

bullion

canton

captain

carton

chairman

chessman

chevron

dalton

desman

ensign

fielden

fountain

freedman

goodman

harten

headman

hearten

hempen

intone

keelson

kelson

kelvin

kenyan

kremlin

lightman

london

m1

marten

martin

matron

molten

mountain

muslin

onion

outdone

outrun

panton

patron

penman

plantain

ponton

pressman

runnion

santon

scullion

selden

sequin

shearman

shorten

shotgun

smarten

spartan

stepson

tartan

tendon

tubman

tuscan

undone

vulcan

wanton

woodman

woolman

tungsten

alan

amman

auden

bacon

baron

barren

basin

bason

bayman

belgian

bison

blacken

blowgun

bobbin

bollen

bourbon

bowman

bracken

brazen

brethren

broaden

brogan

broken

burden

burdon

burman

bushman

cabin

caisson

canaan

cannon

canon

cayman

chasten

chosen

churchman

coachman

colon

common

craven

crewman

cuban

cumin

dagan

dagon

daman

dragon

dromon

drunken

dungeon

dutchman

engine

ermine

fallen

famine

fasten

firman

flashgun

flexion

floren

foreign

freshman

frozen

gallon

gammon

garron

gentian

german

gladden

graven

happen

hasten

hausen

haven

hogan

hoven

human

huntsman

hymen

hyphen

hyson

intends

intents

jason

kalan

laden

lagan

layman

lichen

liken

liman

liven

locken

logan

loosen

loren

lumen

luncheon

lyden

madden

maiden

mason

mention

moisten

odin

often

omen

open

othman

pagan

pavon

pension

person

poison

pollan

pollen

proven

question

raven

riden

ripen

robin

roman

rosen

rosin

rumen

sadden

salmon

section

sermon

shaken

shaman

shogun

showman

shrunken

siphon

siren

slacken

slogan

sodden

soften

solon

spoken

stolen

suction

sunken

swollen

syphon

taken

talon

tappen

tension

thousand

token

toman

trodden

turban

urban

urson

wagon

waken

warren

watchman

widen

wizen

worsen

woven

yaupon

yeoman

zaman

zircon

ashen

asian

burgeon

cantons

doctrine

cajun

caution

fountains

headsman

indent

scotsman

statesman

yachtsman

fashion

mahone

entwine

pendant

fusion

motion

intones

haitian

caxton

postman

lotion

seedsman

nation

passion

potion

capstan

persian

portman

tendons

notion

ocean

delphian

ration

station

sturgeon

suasion

surgeon

trojan

mountains

urchin

version

lion

rayon

zion

scion

gowan

rowan

rowen

ruin

dian

cowan

ion

mayan

owen

urine

alban

alman

apron

arson

aspen

bagman

bantam

banyan

bargain

bolden

brakeman

calvin

canyon

carman

carmine

centime

chaplain

chapman

carbon

classman

claxon

gumption

henchman

copeman

emption

corban

cordon

dampen

damson

darken

dentine

dobson

dolman

dolphin

falcon

fibrin

golden

gorgon

harden

harken

houseman

foreman

faulcon

gascon

penguin

garden

hackman

fireman

jackman

jargon

jasmine

jordan

jorden

kansan

kirkman

lindane

lineman

linemen

lockman

lopeman

marlin

minden

morgan

mormon

newsman

norman

olden

organ

orphan

oxen

packman

pardon

parson

passman

pentane

phantom

quantum

saffron

samson

saxon

scallion

sharpen

soldan

sometime

sovereign

sovran

squadron

stallion

stallman

stockman

tarpon

union

warden

plankton

vintner

workman

mentions

craftsman

draftsman

function

junction

ointment

sportsman

action

anthem

auction

bastion

caption

faction

faustian

fortune

fraction

georgian

hangman

longan

mangan

mansion

margin

martian

option

portion

torsion

traction

baldwin

bantams

bordman

cauldron

centimes

content

grandson

homespun

horseman

klansman

lampron

landman

marchman

markman

oarsman

phantoms

salesman

sometimes

spokesman

townsman

vintners

windmill

anthems

canteen

centner

contents

entomb

guardsman

landsman

maintain

marksman

nineteen

pontoon

random

sanction

tandem

windmills

canteens

sandman

maintains

pontoons

nineteenth

smoothen

comedown

condemn

condone

contain

contemn

mundane

smoothing

sundown

undine

banding

fainting

funding

rounding

daunting

pending

wanting

chanting

sounding

bending

binding

bonding

bounding

bunting

ending

mounting

pointing

smoothens

minding

hunting

hounding

panting

winding

painting

shunting

finding

founding

landing

lending

pounding

taunting

condemned

condemns

condense

condones

contains

contend

something

bindings

findings

soundings

endings

landings

lendings

paintings

condensed

contempt

contends

landmark

somethings

landmarks

handmade

3 syllable words

bitumen

bulletin

citizen

biotin

chilean

gillian

libyan

simian

syrian

veteran

cetacean

aegean

italian

derision

fijian

fruition

stygian

tuition

mistaken

parisian

unwritten

predestine

remittance

phrygian

bedizen

bouillon

cinnamon

detection

puritan

cistercian

indian

silicon

detention

cyprian

determine

fustian

dictation

eleven

elison

garrison

jettison

keratin

peterman

skeleton

vatican

addition

audition

badminton

bedouin

carrion

cation

clarion

collision

commission

commitment

decision

deletion

delusion

desertion

devotion

division

edition

elation

emission

emitting

emotion

erosion

etruscan

evasion

fenian

fisherman

ghanaian

hawaiian

heroin

heroine

illusion

imagine

immersion

intestine

lecithin

malayan

marian

median

munition

musician

myosin

nemean

niacin

omission

permission

petition

physician

plebeian

position

precession

precision

protean

provision

recession

recision

religion

remission

reopen

rescission

reversion

revision

samoan

secession

sedition

tradition

uterine

volition

battalion

bedridden

bentonite

brazilian

cardigan

discipline

forbidden

in-person

indians

minuteman

talisman

distortion

opinion

unbutton

uncertain

timberman

filtration

intention

civilian

dominion

intrusion

singleton

charlatan

enlighten

guncotton

intimate

logician

penitent

magician

pavilion

rebellion

sentinel

vermilion

creation

lutheran

commitments

entombment

addiction

admission

ambition

attention

attrition

beholden

cognition

condition

contagion

contusion

crustacean

deception

deduction

defection

deflation

dentition

depiction

depletion

depression

diffusion

dimension

discussion

dispersion

dissension

election

emotions

emulsion

equation

erection

eruption

eviction

excision

exertion

fixation

gestation

ignition

impassion

inaction

incision

incursion

insertion

invasion

inversion

irishman

misshapen

munitions

nutrition

optician

partition

patrician

preclusion

prediction

preemption

pretension

prevention

protection

reception

rendition

repression

resection

retention

revulsion

seclusion

seduction

submission

suspicion

tactician

technician

temptation

transition

unwitting

suburban

assassin

collagen

feminine

ferryman

forgotten

indium

jacobin

jamaican

javelin

thespian

uneven

wesleyan

freemason

kantian

waterman

lesbian

venison

vitamin

distraction

lanolin

anyone

toboggan

unison

destruction

extension

intentioned

intentions

awaken

beethoven

catalan

denizen

ottoman

pelican

ramadan

reunion

specimen

medicine

melanin

solomon

extrusion

londoner

nevadan

countryman

crestfallen

disunion

egyptian

ejection

franciscan

gentleman

imprison

intended

intensely

intensive

intently

intimates

octillion

rejection

reptilian

sentences

sentiment

sentinels

aleutian

allusion

assertion

aversion

cessation

citation

clergyman

collegian

collusion

commotion

correction

corruption

cremation

direction

duration

flirtation

flotation

halogen

malaysian

margarine

notation

parthian

pollution

precaution

mutation

narration

negation

occasion

origin

percussion

phoenician

possession

predation

procession

profession

promotion

quotation

reaction

regimen

relation

rotation

sedation

solution

summation

venetian

vomiting

distinction

affliction

alien

appian

arian

aryan

attraction

avian

contention

contortion

contrition

conviction

deflection

diffraction

discretion

disruption

dorian

exaction

exception

excursion

exhaustion

fabian

foramen

freudian

frustration

galleon

gaussian

grobian

horizon

implosion

impression

inception

inclusion

induction

infection

inflation

infusion

inhuman

invention

irian

jovian

julian

korean

midshipman

misfortune

misprision

moroccan

nubian

odeon

orion

pentathlon

permian

presumption

redemption

reflection

resumption

retraction

saccharin

tamarin

transmission

abandon

acumen

african

alaskan

artisan

austrian

cantonal

chairperson

chairwoman

charwoman

clarendon

cohesion

corsican

enliven

everyone

genuine

londoners

lumberman

magdalen

medallion

mexican

nobleman

instruction

partisan

policeman

porcelain

sumatran

rifleman

tendency

unburden

uncommon

wantonly

containment

ingestion

injection

sentiments

coercion

corrosion

croatian

extinction

horatian

laotian

affection

aggression

artesian

ascension

aspersion

cartesian

abortion

collection

excretion

hydrogen

exemption

confession

exclusion

abrasion

connexion

description

expansion

explosion

ablation

ablution

expression

connection

expulsion

extortion

accession

inspection

asuncion

digression

dissection

apportion

compassion

conversion

indenture

accretion

adoption

benjamin

concession

concussion

contentions

contingent

contraction

contraption

encryption

restriction

subtraction

lactation

lanthanum

menhaden

obsession

occlusion

abstention

laurentian

norwegian

prescription

proscription

nitrogen

oppression

perception

infraction

oxygen

infliction

inflection

optation

perfection

plantation

infarction

production

profusion

progression

proportion

propulsion

reduction

regression

secretion

selection

sensation

submersion

subversion

succession

summations

suppression

adrian

albion

andean

antenna

bosnian

champion

gordian

gravamen

guardian

halcyon

keynesian

mandarin

monotone

scorpion

campion

hammerman

overdone

overman

overrun

superman

zambian

adhesion

contentment

englishman

contented

continent

countenance

companion

communion

condiment

councilman

digestion

downtrodden

emblazon

embolden

endowment

harlequin

maintenance

masculine

muskmelon

nebraskan

outspoken

projection

saleswoman

suggestion

tantamount

tendencies

truncation

unbroken

abduction

anglican

assumption

castration

caucasian

causation

combustion

completion

compression

compulsion

conception

conclusion

concoction

conduction

confection

conflation

confucian

confusion

conscription

constriction

construction

contingents

convection

convention

convulsion

declension

dilation

dilution

diversion

donation

entangle

extraction

gradation

gyration

indentured

indentures

injunction

inscription

ligation

location

nonhuman

obstruction

oration

ovation

pantheon

perversion

privation

probation

prostration

subscription

suspension

transcription

untangle

vacation

vocation

perfusion

forewoman

australian

backwoodsman

rhodopsin

pantomime

abdomen

condiments

congestion

objection

antennas

mountaineer

capsaicin

continents

alderman

cambrian

untimely

endowments

heartbroken

chamberlain

backgammon

congressman

anchorman

entangled

alsatian

carnation

dalmatian

damnation

donations

formation

foundation

hydration

libration

salvation

absorption

migration

starvation

consumption

taxation

persuasion

stagnation

vibration

adsorption

complexion

transgression

compunction

albumin

ambrosian

arkansan

bandwagon

condensate

handwoven

housebroken

mountaineers

nonunion

snapdragon

abstraction

conjunction

transaction

translation

condensates

contemplate

janthina

bandanas

randomize

randomly

transfusion

contemplates

fandango

bandana

container

undoing

undying

anything

condenser

contender

containers

continue

commuting

contenders

continued

continues

undaunted

unthinking

landowner

andante

endemic

landowners

pandemic

endanger

landmasses

endangered

endangers

4 syllable words

corinthian

iteration

meridian

committeeman

historian

eritrean

samaritan

minnesotan

interurban

predetermine

victorian

dilatation

dissertation

imitation

intuition

litigation

irritation

gravitation

levitation

limitation

mitigation

visitation

titillation

smithsonian

arizonan

assyrian

bolivian

criterion

devonian

floridian

himalayan

hyperion

iberian

iranian

liberian

monotony

praetorian

reawaken

siberian

sicilian

simonian

valerian

cogitation

interwoven

misbegotten

remittances

apparition

athenian

coalition

dietitian

hegelian

leviathan

liberation

miseration

nigerian

pelagian

prohibition

reassertion

rhetorician

inattention

distillation

interaction

intercession

intermission

interruption

intimation

intonation

invitation

restitution

abyssinian

amphibian

centenary

centurion

custodian

darwinian

dominican

estonian

intimacy

nestorian

nicaraguan

oblivion

obsidian

olympian

penicillin

reexamine

sectarian

situation

kindergarten

ohioan

equestrian

abolition

algerian

annotation

bifurcation

connotation

demolition

deposition

detonation

diminution

disillusion

dissipation

dissolution

divination

emotional

erudition

figuration

fumigation

habitation

hesitation

immolation

inhalation

innovation

irrigation

manumission

meditation

opposition

politician

polynesian

preelection

preignition

proposition

readmission

realization

recitation

reelection

repercussion

repetition

reposition

repossession

restoration

rumination

sanitation

supervision

supposition

trepidation

arbitration

disputation

electrician

illustration

importation

imputation

incantation

indentation

infestation

installation

instigation

institution

integration

intentional

interception

interdiction

intersection

intervention

intimations

intonations

ministration

substitution

canadian

chameleon

european

fallopian

agitation

arabian

diocesan

gregorian

anatomy

intensify

comedian

intimately

shakespearean

bavarian

collodion

galilean

jacobean

contaminate

inattentive

intemperate

pedestrian

republican

vegetation

maccabean

missourian

napoleon

mammalian

hemoglobin

newtonian

crocodilian

planarian

plutonian

protozoan

utopian

interjection

registration

circumcision

anathema

benediction

carcinogen

commutation

competition

composition

crucifixion

cultivation

deportation

destination

devastation

disaffection

dislocation

dereliction

destitution

disposition

lilliputian

liquidation

lubrication

molestation

palpitation

penetration

polyhedron

protestation

publication

recognition

refutation

reputation

requisition

retardation

retrocession

stimulation

distribution

simulation

stipulation

subdivision

aviation

inundation

superstition

bohemian

tribulation

imposition

vindication

implantation

acquisition

adaptation

estimation

excitation

exhibition

immigration

invocation

ventilation

incrustation

indecision

fibrillation

inspiration

coloration

information

infiltration

insulation

insurrection

affectation

indication

indonesian

introduction

fabrication

decoration

deviation

equitation

federation

foliation

syndication

generation

ideation

mediation

preparation

radiation

reparation

separation

surrogation

variation

veneration

violation

abdication

accordion

agrarian

alabaman

aldebaran

american

armenian

barbarian

businesswoman

californian

canadians

centennial

centimetre

columbian

comedians

contaminates

continuance

copernican

cotyledon

cyclopean

dandelion

dehydration

eustachian

gentlewoman

glaciation

graduation

greco-roman

guatemalan

inhibition

intensified

intensifies

intensively

librarian

maturation

monatomic

moravian

pagurian

paraguayan

peruvian

saturation

sentimental

syncopation

wagnerian

watermelon

inflammation

allegation

computation

consultation

imperfection

indignation

pigmentation

reinspection

reproduction

implication

allocation

alteration

contingency

animation

appalachian

appellation

arthurian

ostentation

avocation

incarnation

indexation

retribution

inclination

collocation

locomotion

amputation

devolution

hungarian

augmentation

disconnection

medication

melanesian

motivation

exhortation

renovation

attribution

relocation

revolution

premonition

revelation

revocation

dispensation

ulceration

introspection

desperation

perturbation

inquisition

jurisdiction

derivation

evocation

evolution

exposition

desolation

disinfection

preservation

resolution

respiration

resurrection

reservation

decompression

disinflation

expedition

intangible

provocation

liquefaction

desiccation

correlation

dedication

fluoridation

malnutrition

definition

elevation

emanation

isolation

menstruation

defamation

delegation

tetrahedron

decimation

declaration

misperception

jubilation

mutilation

navigation

oscillation

procreation

recreation

reformation

propagation

suffocation

vacillation

validation

apprehension

incubation

indigestion

armageddon

tamoxifen

coloradan

draconian

macedonian

vanadium

education

adrenaline

adulation

anatomist

centimetres

comparison

continual

contrarian

fluctuation

indemnify

intimidate

modulation

noblewoman

abrogation

absolution

accusation

abnegation

advocation

sequestration

acclamation

acclimation

activation

aggravation

aggregation

altercation

alternation

annexation

application

approbation

calibration

cancellation

celebration

circulation

compilation

consolation

consummation

convocation

convolution

deformation

degradation

demarcation

culmination

depravation

depredation

deprivation

designation

duplication

desecration

elocution

emigration

indiscretion

contingencies

emulation

masturbation

contradiction

impregnation

granulation

hypertension

misconception

mountaineering

expiration

gargantuan

obligation

occupation

orchestration

ovulation

oxidation

permutation

persecution

population

precondition

predilection

presentation

proclamation

prosecution

prostitution

recantation

reclamation

recollection

regulation

relaxation

resignation

expectation

replication

segregation

speculation

statistician

extradition

superhuman

tabulation

exploitation

extrication

intangibles

aberration

adoration

comprehension

englishwoman

ianthina

laceration

moderation

operation

perforation

toleration

rhododendron

entanglement

legislation

countenances

assemblyman

elongation

intimidates

nonpartisan

fundamental

conjugation

continental

gorgonian

condemnation

calculation

pavlovian

complication

condescension

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8 syllable words

Words that rhyme with the word smitten

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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