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2 syllable words

bacon

beaten

bellon

blacken

bracken

breton

broken

button

charon

cheapen

cousin

cretin

deaden

deafen

deepen

demon

devon

dozen

eaten

eden

elan

felon

freeman

heaven

heron

jetton

leaden

leaven

ledden

leman

lemon

lessen

lesson

leven

lichen

liken

locken

marron

melon

muffin

mullen

mutton

oven

perron

pullen

reason

redden

rerun

resin

seaman

season

semen

seton

seven

shaken

slacken

spoken

steven

sudden

sullen

summon

sweeten

taken

threaten

token

toughen

treason

vegan

waken

weapon

wheaten

woman

wooden

woolen

zircon

christian

drunken

flexion

section

shrunken

suction

sunken

paean

peon

bludgeon

cushion

dudgeon

freshen

grecian

gudgeon

heathen

hessian

legion

lesion

prussian

region

russian

session

stricture

children

sexton

acton

airman

bellman

brakeman

bullion

chairman

chessman

chevron

chieftain

claxon

darken

desman

ensign

falcon

faulcon

fielden

footman

freedman

gascon

goodman

hackman

harken

headman

hempen

hetman

jackman

jetson

keelson

kelson

kelvin

kenyan

kirkman

kremlin

lockman

london

m1

melton

muslin

onion

oxen

packman

penman

pressman

runnion

saxon

scullion

selden

shearman

stepson

stockman

sultan

tendon

teston

tubman

undone

woodman

woolman

workman

action

alan

amman

auction

auden

baron

barren

basin

bason

baton

batten

batton

bayman

belgian

bison

blowgun

bobbin

bollen

boughten

bourbon

bowman

brazen

brethren

brighten

broaden

brogan

burden

burdon

burman

burton

bushman

cabin

caisson

canaan

cannon

canon

cayman

certain

chasten

chosen

churchman

coachman

colon

common

cotton

craven

crewman

crouton

cuban

cumin

curtain

dagan

dagon

daman

dragon

dromon

dungeon

dutchman

engine

ermine

faction

fallen

famine

fasten

fatten

firman

flashgun

flatten

floren

foreign

fraction

freshman

frighten

frozen

function

gallon

gammon

garron

gentian

german

gladden

gluten

gotten

graven

happen

hasten

hausen

haven

heighten

hogan

hoten

hoven

human

hymen

hyphen

hyson

jason

junction

kalan

laden

lagan

latin

layman

lighten

liman

liven

logan

loosen

loren

lumen

luncheon

lyden

madden

maiden

mason

mention

moisten

odin

often

omen

open

othman

pagan

patten

pavon

pension

person

platen

platten

poison

pollan

pollen

proven

question

raven

riden

ripen

robin

roman

rosen

rosin

rotten

rumen

sadden

salmon

satan

satin

sermon

shaman

shogun

showman

siphon

siren

slogan

sodden

soften

solon

stolen

straighten

stresses

strickler

strictures

struggle

swollen

syphon

talon

tappen

tension

thousand

tighten

titan

toman

traction

triton

trodden

turban

urban

urson

wagon

warren

watchman

whiten

widen

wizen

worsen

woven

yaupon

yeoman

zaman

asian

earthen

caxton

ashen

fusion

delphian

lotion

mahone

nation

notion

pathan

persian

ration

sturgeon

suasion

surgeon

trojan

version

doctrine

burgeon

cajun

caution

fashion

haitian

ocean

structure

dustman

station

headsman

urchin

lengthen

marchman

markman

seedsman

spokesman

strengthen

motion

passion

potion

cowan

dian

gowan

ion

lion

mayan

owen

rayon

rowan

rowen

ruin

scion

urine

zion

gumption

henchman

tungsten

alban

alman

apron

arson

aspen

atman

austin

bagman

banyan

bargain

barton

baston

boatman

bolden

boston

calvin

canton

canyon

captain

carbon

carman

carmine

carton

chaplain

chapman

classman

copeman

corban

cordon

dalton

dampen

damson

detours

dobson

dolman

dolphin

fibrin

fireman

foreman

fountain

garden

golden

gorgon

guitars

harden

harten

hearten

houseman

jargon

jasmine

jordan

jorden

kansan

lightman

lineman

linemen

lopeman

marlin

marten

martin

matron

minden

molten

morgan

mormon

mountain

newsman

norman

olden

organ

orphan

outdone

outrun

panton

pardon

parson

passman

patron

plantain

ponton

retires

saffron

samson

santon

scallion

sharpen

shorten

shotgun

smarten

soldan

sovereign

sovran

spartan

squadron

stallion

stallman

straightens

stressful

strictly

union

warden

emption

struggles

tarpon

tartan

wanton

penguin

plankton

huntsman

marksman

sanction

bastion

caption

faustian

fortune

georgian

hangman

longan

mangan

mansion

margin

martian

option

portion

structured

structures

sturgeons

torsion

quitters

litters

bidders

bitters

deters

strikeout

straggle

sitters

hitters

baldwin

bordman

capstan

cauldron

grandson

homespun

horseman

klansman

lampron

landman

oarsman

portman

postman

salesman

scotsman

statesman

townsman

yachtsman

storage

withers

zithers

betrays

craftsman

detracts

draftsman

guardsman

hydras

landsman

sportsman

staircase

strikeouts

metrics

matrix

theatrics

detract

beaters

betters

bettors

cedars

cheaters

cheddars

eaters

feeders

fetters

getters

headers

heaters

leaders

letters

meters

metres

peters

readers

setters

stearic

strikers

sweaters

teeters

striking

stroking

tethers

weathers

ethers

feathers

features

heathers

leathers

nethers

attracts

starcraft

retracts

citric

metric

nitric

outright

radars

retrace

stairways

starkly

theatric

vitric

striker

attract

networks

outdoors

retract

whitehorse

adheres

badders

batters

butters

caters

cutters

gutters

haters

hooters

ladders

loaders

looters

matters

motors

mutters

nutters

odors

otters

potters

powders

putters

raiders

raters

riders

rooters

rotors

routers

shatters

shooters

shudders

shutters

siders

skaters

squatters

straggler

suitors

tatters

tutors

utters

voters

waders

waiters

waters

authors

bothers

bathers

fathers

futures

gathers

lathers

mathers

mothers

natures

others

southers

straightedge

sutures

network

adores

beadwork

matrice

padres

pedros

stragglers

woodwork

matures

starches

storehouse

addressed

stories

starcher

starchy

cadres

outreach

outraged

outrage

3 syllable words

silicon

vatican

chilean

gillian

libyan

simian

syrian

aegean

derision

fijian

fruition

tuition

mistaken

parisian

phrygian

scythian

stygian

addiction

deduction

defection

depiction

detection

dictation

discussion

election

equation

erection

eviction

excision

bouillon

bulletin

cyprian

eleven

elison

indian

jamaican

jettison

fixation

garrison

seclusion

cinnamon

prediction

awaken

bedizen

bitumen

citizen

inaction

preclusion

resection

pelican

incursion

seduction

addition

audition

bedouin

biotin

carrion

cetacean

clarion

collision

commission

correction

decision

deletion

delusion

desertion

devotion

direction

division

edition

ejection

elation

emission

emotion

erosion

etruscan

evasion

fenian

fisherman

franciscan

ghanaian

hawaiian

heroin

heroine

illusion

imagine

immersion

malayan

marian

median

moroccan

munition

musician

myosin

nemean

niacin

occasion

omission

permission

petition

physician

plebeian

position

precaution

precession

precision

provision

reaction

recession

recision

rejection

religion

remission

reopen

rescission

reversion

revision

saccharin

samoan

secession

sedition

tradition

veteran

volition

affliction

acumen

african

alaskan

bedridden

brazilian

diffraction

discretion

cardigan

infection

civilian

corsican

discipline

dominion

forbidden

induction

reflection

guncotton

in-person

logician

metrical

opinion

pavilion

predestine

rebellion

deflection

italian

magician

mexican

talisman

exaction

timberman

conviction

uncommon

exception

unwritten

excursion

inclusion

vermilion

creation

lutheran

injection

etruscans

accession

accretion

admission

affection

ambition

attrition

beholden

cistercian

cognition

collection

concussion

condition

connection

connexion

deception

deflation

dentition

depletion

depression

detention

detergent

diffusion

dimension

dispersion

dissection

dissension

emulsion

eruption

exertion

ignition

impassion

incision

insertion

invasion

inversion

irishman

misshapen

nutrition

occlusion

optician

partition

patrician

perfection

preemption

pretension

prevention

production

protection

reception

reduction

rendition

repression

retention

revulsion

secretion

selection

submission

succession

suspicion

tactician

technician

transition

anyone

feminine

ferryman

medicine

melanin

nevadan

suburban

toboggan

freemason

unison

fustian

uneven

description

destruction

distraction

exclusion

excretion

expansion

explosion

expression

expulsion

extension

extrusion

ottoman

assassin

thespian

infarction

inflection

infliction

infraction

inspection

restriction

catalan

denizen

javelin

collagen

determine

jacobin

buttercup

keratin

lanolin

lesbian

peterman

puritan

ramadan

reunion

skeleton

solomon

specimen

venison

vitamin

wesleyan

badminton

disunion

egyptian

harlequin

imprison

intestine

muskmelon

nebraskan

octillion

projection

reptilian

truncation

unbroken

allusion

aleutian

assertion

distinction

aversion

clergyman

collegian

collusion

caucasian

cessation

commotion

corruption

cremation

duration

halogen

margarine

lecithin

location

malaysian

negation

origin

parthian

phoenician

pollution

possession

predation

procession

promotion

regimen

narration

percussion

profession

relation

sedation

structural

vacation

solution

summation

venetian

vocation

abduction

alien

anglican

appian

arian

aryan

attraction

avian

cation

conclusion

concoction

conduction

confection

contrition

convection

declension

detergents

disruption

distortion

dorian

exhaustion

fabian

filtration

foramen

freudian

galleon

gaussian

grobian

horizon

implosion

impression

inception

inflation

infusion

inhuman

intention

intrusion

invention

irian

jovian

julian

korean

midshipman

misfortune

misprision

nubian

odeon

orion

patricians

permian

presumption

protean

redemption

resumption

retraction

singleton

tamarin

transmission

uterine

abandon

lumberman

magdalen

medallion

unburden

unbutton

uncertain

constriction

backgammon

battalion

bedraggle

buttercups

chairperson

chairwoman

charlatan

clarendon

cohesion

everyone

genuine

partisan

inscription

instruction

charwoman

enlighten

enliven

guitarist

nobleman

artisan

policeman

porcelain

rifleman

ingestion

objection

coercion

corrosion

croatian

extinction

horatian

laotian

liturgy

ablation

ablution

abortion

abrasion

adoption

aggression

anchorman

apportion

artesian

ascension

aspersion

asuncion

attention

benjamin

cartesian

compassion

concession

confession

contagion

contusion

conversion

crustacean

digression

attractions

complexion

contraction

gestation

hydrogen

encryption

exemption

extortion

prescription

proscription

subtraction

lactation

laurentian

menhaden

nitrogen

norwegian

obsession

oppression

oxygen

perception

profusion

progression

proportion

propulsion

regression

sensation

submersion

subversion

suppression

taxation

temptation

scorpion

mandarin

overman

zambian

waterman

overdone

overrun

superman

adrian

albion

andean

beethoven

bosnian

campion

champion

forgotten

gordian

gravamen

guardian

halcyon

hammerman

kantian

keynesian

councilman

countryman

crestfallen

adhesion

emblazon

embolden

gentleman

arkansan

communion

companion

digestion

guitarists

housebroken

englishman

saleswoman

outspoken

masculine

suggestion

matrixes

assumption

bothersome

causation

citation

combustion

completion

compression

compulsion

conception

conflation

confucian

confusion

conscription

construction

contention

contortion

convention

convulsion

dilation

dilution

diversion

donation

extraction

flirtation

flotation

frustration

gradation

gyration

hydrogens

injunction

ligation

mutation

nonhuman

notation

obstruction

oration

ovation

pentathlon

perversion

privation

probation

quotation

rotation

subscription

suspension

transaction

transcription

congestion

austrian

backwoodsman

cambrian

buttresses

capsaicin

forewoman

sumatran

chamberlain

perfusion

rhodopsin

heartbroken

hydrazine

alderman

abdomen

matrices

widowers

theatres

adsorption

carnation

dalmatian

congressman

damnation

hydration

starvation

absorption

abstention

consumption

migration

stagnation

vibration

contraption

formation

libration

persuasion

alsatian

optation

foundation

plantation

salvation

transgression

authorize

compunction

albumin

ambrosian

bandwagon

detractors

downtrodden

handwoven

headdresses

nonunion

retrograde

snapdragon

redirect

satirist

abstraction

motorcar

conjunction

translation

prostration

castration

authorized

australian

bittersweet

detractor

madrigal

mattresses

motorcars

outriggers

satirists

transfusion

waitresses

rhetoric

rioters

futurists

cauterize

meteors

satirize

dieters

satires

motorize

madrigals

hydroxide

motorcade

motorized

outrigger

storekeeper

hydroxides

lethargy

futurist

watershed

cataracts

motorcades

storekeepers

networking

watersheds

leaderships

straightforward

attracting

petroglyphs

coauthors

retrospect

addressee

stargazer

cataract

waterways

leadership

otherwise

readership

addresses

authorship

staircases

stargazers

outrages

attractive

petroglyph

batteries

lotteries

scattergood

4 syllable words

reawaken

meridian

nicaraguan

dominican

victorian

preelection

bifurcation

reelection

arizonan

assyrian

bolivian

criterion

devonian

floridian

himalayan

hyperion

iberian

iranian

liberian

siberian

sicilian

simonian

valerian

republican

apparition

coalition

corinthian

decoration

dietitian

hegelian

iteration

liberation

miseration

nigerian

pelagian

prohibition

reassertion

rhetorician

dereliction

disaffection

dislocation

interaction

invocation

liquidation

lubrication

publication

syndication

vindication

abdication

indication

benediction

fabrication

insurrection

literacy

crucifixion

abyssinian

accordion

american

amphibian

committeeman

copernican

darwinian

eritrean

greco-roman

historian

interurban

metrically

minnesotan

oblivion

obsidian

olympian

penicillin

predetermine

reexamine

rhetorical

samaritan

satirical

sectarian

situation

theatrical

ohioan

equestrian

syncopation

abolition

algerian

allocation

avocation

collocation

declaration

dedication

demolition

deposition

desiccation

dilatation

diminution

disillusion

dissertation

dissipation

dissolution

divination

erudition

evocation

imitation

immolation

fumigation

gravitation

inhalation

figuration

innovation

intuition

irrigation

irritation

levitation

limitation

liturgical

manumission

medication

mitigation

litigation

opposition

politician

polynesian

preignition

proposition

provocation

readmission

realization

recreation

relocation

repercussion

repetition

reposition

repossession

resurrection

revocation

rhetoricians

rumination

smithsonian

suffocation

supervision

supposition

titillation

trepidation

visitation

disconnection

disinfection

electrician

imperfection

implication

incantation

incarnation

inclination

indexation

inquisition

interdiction

intersection

jurisdiction

liquefaction

reinspection

reproduction

arabian

bavarian

canadian

cogitation

chameleon

collodion

comedian

diocesan

misbegotten

fallopian

shakespearean

european

hemoglobin

draconian

galilean

education

interwoven

gregorian

jacobean

fluctuation

maccabean

mammalian

missourian

napoleon

planarian

praetorian

protozoan

interjection

incubation

coloration

advocation

affectation

carcinogen

indiscretion

demarcation

bohemian

desecration

distillation

disposition

duplication

elocution

incrustation

expiration

misconception

indonesian

futurism

indecision

inattention

athenian

foliation

immigration

information

federation

generation

precondition

predilection

deviation

prosecution

recantation

reclamation

recollection

relaxation

replication

requisition

statistician

stipulation

aviation

recognition

acquisition

competition

composition

convocation

equitation

excitation

exhibition

mediation

annexation

application

cultivation

fibrillation

insulation

intercession

intonation

surrogation

imposition

inspiration

intermission

interruption

intimation

inundation

invitation

radiation

persecution

simulation

leviathan

lilliputian

separation

speculation

violation

polyhedron

restitution

stimulation

contradiction

subdivision

tribulation

ideation

introduction

veneration

superstition

preparation

reparation

variation

agrarian

alabaman

aldebaran

armenian

barbarian

businesswoman

californian

centurion

columbian

cotyledon

custodian

cyclopean

dandelion

dehydration

estonian

eustachian

glaciation

graduation

guatemalan

herculean

inhibition

kindergarten

librarian

matriculate

maturation

moravian

nestorian

pagurian

paraguayan

peruvian

saturation

wagnerian

watermelon

arthurian

defamation

arbitration

connotation

definition

delegation

derivation

desolation

detonation

devolution

fluoridation

oscillation

procreation

propagation

recitation

reformation

renovation

attribution

desperation

elevation

evolution

restoration

revelation

revolution

emanation

respiration

complication

correlation

decimation

premonition

reservation

resolution

sanitation

preservation

confiscation

decompression

disputation

excavation

execution

appellation

habitation

dispensation

allegation

hesitation

disinflation

expedition

hungarian

exploration

exposition

animation

illustration

importation

imputation

indignation

infestation

inflammation

interception

intervention

malnutrition

ministration

misperception

annotation

pigmentation

punctuation

subluxation

introspection

appalachian

substitution

isolation

embarkation

installation

obfuscation

jubilation

locomotion

melanesian

mutilation

mortification

motivation

preconception

machination

meditation

navigation

consecration

validation

indentation

instigation

integration

satisfaction

ulceration

vacillation

institution

apprehension

exhalation

indigestion

matriculates

registration

adrenaline

adulation

agitation

armageddon

comparison

contrarian

crocodilian

plutonian

modulation

noblewoman

pedestrian

coloradan

tamoxifen

vegetation

newtonian

utopian

macedonian

explanation

aggravation

acclamation

approbation

backwardation

compilation

expectation

deportation

oxidation

regulation

explication

exploitation

ovulation

reputation

extradition

gargantuan

extrication

destination

destitution

abnegation

absolution

celebration

distribution

abrogation

consolation

consummation

deformation

degradation

depravation

depredation

deprivation

designation

granulation

obligation

exclamation

occupation

palpitation

refutation

tabulation

infiltration

acclimation

accusation

activation

adaptation

aggregation

algonquian

altercation

calibration

cancellation

circulation

circumcision

commutation

convolution

culmination

devastation

emigration

emulation

estimation

hydrogenate

hypertension

molestation

penetration

population

presentation

proclamation

retrocession

prostitution

protestation

retardation

segregation

superhuman

vaccination

sequestration

resignation

ventilation

obstetrician

implantation

impregnation

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gentlewoman

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rhododendron

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hydrocarbons

mongolian

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copenhagen

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concentration

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transplantation

meteoric

cauterizes

satirizes

authorizes

retroactive

5 syllable words

nickelodeon

deification

recuperation

delicatessen

theologian

reiteration

ethiopian

mummification

vilification

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specification

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hanoverian

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misapplication

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pythagorean

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sophistication

augustinian

ejaculation

epicurean

initiation

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presbyterian

philadelphian

maximilian

regeneration

degeneration

origination

scandinavian

dissatisfaction

accommodation

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assimilation

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denunciation

desalination

determination

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edification

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elizabethan

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legalization

modification

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notification

nullification

orientation

incrimination

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pacification

premeditation

presupposition

disinclination

preoccupation

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purification

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ratification

remuneration

renunciation

repudiation

resuscitation

russification

solicitation

unification

verification

vulgarization

discrimination

synchronization

indoctrination

brobdingnagian

babylonian

capitulation

oregonian

adjudication

depreciation

exaggeration

jeffersonian

carthaginian

imagination

amazonian

beethovenian

heterocercal

panamanian

patagonian

mathematician

refrigeration

proletarian

unitarian

rejuvenation

infatuation

nitroglycerine

nonsectarian

electrocution

pennsylvanian

washingtonian

miscalculation

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anticipation

communication

concatenation

configuration

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decomposition

depopulation

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emancipation

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hyperinflation

immunization

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christianization

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reaffirmation

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vegetarian

accumulation

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centenarian

approximation

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investigation

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juxtaposition

multiplication

veterinarian

prognostication

nonintervention

procrastination

overproduction

peloponnesian

brutalization

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mobilization

misapprehension

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assemblywoman

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representation

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congratulation

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colonization

argumentation

coordination

pronunciation

substantiation

dionysian

motorcyclist

argentinian

harmonization

organization

nitrocellulose

motorcyclists

hydrogenation

triangulation

ionization

retrospectively

retroactively

hydrocephalic

8 syllable words

Words that rhyme with the word stricken

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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