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Rhyming Words Finder
Find words that rhyme with any word: perfect rhymes first, then near rhymes, words with the same vowel sound, and phrases, with the most common words on top.
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Perfect rhymes (6)
the same sound from the stressed vowel to the end
Near rhymes (108)
almost the same sound — closest first
Same vowel sound (80)
assonance: the vowels match, the consonants differ
Same ending, different vowel (80)
consonance: the ending matches
Longer words with this ending (2)
the last part of the word rhymes
Phrases that rhyme (5)
common phrases that end in a perfect rhyme
Common words come first. Tap a word for its meaning, to copy it, or to see its own rhymes.
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How the rhyme finder works
Type any word and the rhyming words finder lists what rhymes with it, starting with the perfect rhymes and moving outward to looser ones. It works from pronunciation, not spelling, so it knows that through rhymes with blue and that love doesn’t rhyme with move. It covers about 51,000 words and 7,000 names and places.
- Type a word. If you type a phrase, the rhymes are for its last word.
- Read down the sections: perfect rhymes first, then near rhymes, then words that only share the vowel or only the ending.
- Tap a word to see what it means, copy it, or jump to its own rhymes. Copy list copies a whole section.
- Narrow the results with the syllable filter, or widen them with Rare words and Names & places.
Perfect rhymes, near rhymes and slant rhymes
Take rib. Only a handful of words rhyme with it exactly, but dozens come close. The finder sorts them into kinds, so you can decide how strict to be:
| Kind of rhyme | What matches | For “rib” |
|---|---|---|
| Perfect rhyme | Every sound from the stressed vowel to the end | crib, bib, fib, glib, lib |
| Near rhyme (slant rhyme) | The same vowel, and a consonant from the same family (b/p, b/d/g), or an added -s or -ed | ship, trip, big, kid, ribs |
| Same vowel sound (assonance) | The vowels match; the consonants are free | give, him, fish, win, this |
| Same ending (consonance) | The ending matches; the vowel differs | job, club, describe, disturb, grab |
Longer words work the same way. For happy, the perfect rhymes are unhappy, snappy, scrappy; the near rhymes include shabby, abbey, tabby, crabby, flabby; and words with the same ending but another vowel include copy, sloppy, floppy, nippy, hippie. Songwriters and rappers lean on these looser rhymes all the time, because a natural near rhyme usually sounds better than a forced perfect one.
Kinds of rhyme chart
Words that rhyme with…
Rhymes for the words people look up most often:
| Word | Perfect rhymes | Near rhymes |
|---|---|---|
| love | of, above, shove, glove, thereof, dove | rough, stuff, enough, tough, duff, bluff |
| you | do, two, new, too, view, true, blue, few, through, due | use, loose, lose, choose, views, news |
| me | be, see, three, tree, free, key, tea, he, we, she | sees, trees, please, keys, ease, these |
| day | say, way, play, pay, stay, gray, lay, may, a, grey | state, great, wait, rate, late, hate |
| time | prime, climb, crime, rhyme, dime, slime, i'm, lime, mime, chime | line, sign, fine, nine, mine, wine |
| life | wife, knife, strife, rife, fife | live, drive, five, arrive, derive, survive |
| heart | start, part, art, apart, restart, smart, chart, cart, dart, tart | hard, guard, card, regard, yard, barred |
| night | write, right, fight, light, quite, white, site, sight, bright, flight | side, lied, ride, died, wide, hide |
| go | know, so, show, grow, no, low, throw, flow, blow, slow | showed, road, load, mode, code, owed |
| blue | do, two, new, too, view, true, few, through, due, clue | use, loose, lose, choose, views, news |
| home | foam, gnome, tome, comb, roam, chrome, ohm, dome, loam, shalom | own, known, stone, loan, phone, prone |
| mind | find, kind, wind, bind, grind, signed, remind, behind, combined, inclined | pint, timed, climbed, primed, rhymed, chimed |
| rain | gain, train, pain, plane, main, chain, plain, lain, again, remain | same, name, claim, game, aim, blame |
| fun | one, run, gun, sun, son, done, none, won, begun, ton | come, some, sum, dumb, numb, from |
| girl | hurl, whirl, curl, swirl, pearl, twirl, earl, unfurl, whorl, burl | world, girls, hurled, whirled, swirled, curled |
| world | hurled, whirled, swirled, curled, twirled, unfurled | girl, worlds, hurl, whirl, curl, swirl |
| friend | end, send, spend, tend, lend, attend, extend, intend, suspend, depend | cent, sent, went, meant, spent, present |
| dream | seem, team, stream, deem, scheme, extreme, scream, beam, theme, steam | mean, scene, clean, green, screen, keen |
| eyes | tries, rise, lies, dies, size, buys, flies, ties, wise, fries | price, nice, twice, ice, vice, device |
| free | be, see, three, tree, key, tea, he, me, we, she | sees, trees, please, keys, ease, these |
| fire | wire, prior, higher, require, desire, entire, acquire, hire, tire, choir | required, desired, acquired, requires, desires, acquires |
| light | write, right, fight, night, quite, white, site, sight, bright, flight | side, lied, ride, died, wide, hide |
| way | say, day, play, pay, stay, gray, lay, may, a, grey | state, great, wait, rate, late, hate |
| sky | try, eye, high, lie, die, buy, cry, fly, dry, tie | side, lied, ride, died, wide, hide |
| soul | whole, role, roll, hole, poll, control, goal, pole, sole, coal | hold, old, cold, sold, told, holes |
| away | say, way, day, play, pay, stay, gray, lay, may, a | state, great, wait, rate, late, hate |
| song | long, strong, wrong, along, belong, prolong, throng, gong, tong, prong | twang, on, gone, drawn, lawn, dawn |
| fly | try, eye, high, lie, die, buy, cry, dry, tie, guy | side, lied, ride, died, wide, hide |
| kiss | miss, this, bliss, dismiss, hiss, abyss, amiss, remiss, reminisce, dis | is, his, quiz, whiz, ms, wiz |
| cold | hold, old, sold, told, controlled, rolled, gold, bold, fold, mold | bolt, revolt, colt, jolt, molt, volt |
| true | do, two, new, too, view, blue, few, through, due, clue | use, loose, lose, choose, views, news |
| feel | deal, real, steal, wheel, reveal, appeal, ideal, automobile, steel, meal | field, feels, deals, wheels, revealed, reveals |
| dance | chance, advance, glance, stance, finance, enhance, romance, trance, lance, prance | plans, vans, mans, scans, fans, cans |
| smile | file, mile, style, pile, while, worthwhile, vile, tile, hostile, compile | files, miles, child, wild, filed, smiles |
| tree | be, see, three, free, key, tea, he, me, we, she | sees, trees, please, keys, ease, these |
| sun | one, run, gun, son, fun, done, none, won, begun, ton | come, some, sum, dumb, numb, from |
| moon | soon, tune, afternoon, noon, cartoon, immune, strewn, croon, boon, loon | room, whom, assume, presume, doom, boom |
| star | far, car, bar, are, our, char, bizarre, par, guitar, scar | start, part, heart, art, hard, guard |
| cat | hat, flat, at, sat, that, fat, bat, pat, rat, chat | add, bad, mad, glad, sad, had |
| dog | log, fog, bog, cog, blog, snog | clog, frog, hog, jog, flog, slog |
| money | funny, honey, sunny, bunny, runny, sonny, gunny, tunny | dummy, mummy, crummy, gummy, rummy, tummy |
| happy | unhappy, snappy, scrappy, crappie | shabby, abbey, tabby, crabby, flabby, cabby |
| people | steeple, laypeople | feeble, enfeeble, peoples, peopled, steeples, beetle |
| summer | dumber, plumber, bummer, drummer, glummer, midsummer, comer, mummer, hummer | runner, gunner, stunner, summers, plumbers, drummers |
What rhymes with orange? Words with no perfect rhyme
Some common English words have no perfect rhyme among everyday words. That is where near rhymes earn their keep:
| Word | Closest rhymes |
|---|---|
| orange | storage, forage, porridge, warrens, abhorrence, foreign |
| purple | verbal, burble, gerbil, herbal, nonverbal, purples |
| silver | pilfer, silvers, river, deliver, killer, liver |
| month | months, lunch, once, bunch, punch, crunch |
| wolf | pulls, bulls, wolves, full, pull, bull |
Poets also split the rhyme across two words (orange / door hinge) or move the awkward word to the middle of the line, where it doesn’t need a rhyme at all.
Words with two pronunciations
Some words are said two ways, and each way has its own rhymes. When you type one, the finder asks which you mean:
| Word | Said one way, it rhymes with | Said the other way |
|---|---|---|
| read | head, lead, dead, red | need, lead, feed, speed |
| live | drive, five, arrive, derive | give, forgive, sieve, outlive |
| wind | find, mind, kind, bind | thinned, sinned, grinned, skinned |
| tear | year, hear, here, fear | there, wear, air, share |
| bass | face, place, case, base | pass, mass, class, glass |
| lead | head, read, dead, red | need, read, feed, speed |
| bow | know, go, so, show | now, how, allow, cow |
| close | gross, dose, morose, engross | knows, goes, shows, grows |
Rhyme schemes for poems and songs
A rhyme scheme labels which lines rhyme, using letters: lines that share a letter rhyme with each other.
- AABB (couplets) — two lines rhyme, then the next two. Common in children’s poems and pop choruses.
- ABAB (alternate rhyme) — every other line rhymes. Classic in ballads and hymns.
- AABBA — the limerick: lines 1, 2, and 5 rhyme, and the two short lines rhyme with each other.
- ABAB CDCD EFEF GG — the Shakespearean sonnet, ending in a rhyming couplet.
Counting syllables helps rhymes land on the beat: check your lines with the Syllable Counter, which also shows word stress and meter. For word games, try the Word Unscrambler.
Tips for rhyming in songs, poems and raps
- Start strict, then loosen. If the perfect rhymes all sound forced, read the near rhymes aloud. In a sung line, love / enough is barely distinguishable from a perfect rhyme.
- Match the rhythm. A rhyme lands best when both words have the same number of syllables after the stress. Use the syllable filter to keep them in step.
- Rhyme more than one syllable. Words in the “same vowel sound” section match every vowel from the stress to the end, which is how multi-syllable rap rhymes are built.
- Try phrases. The phrases section lists common expressions that end in a perfect rhyme, so a line can end on fall in love instead of just love.
About the rhyming dictionary
Pronunciations come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, an open dictionary of American English. Which words count as real words, and how common each one is, comes from the ENABLE and SCOWL word lists; phrases and definitions come from WordNet. Rare words are hidden until you ask for them, and swear words and crude terms are left out of the results. Pronunciations follow General American English, so a few rhymes differ in British and other accents. Everything runs in your browser: the word you type is never sent anywhere.
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Frequently asked questions
- How does the rhyme finder work?
- It looks up how your word is pronounced, not how it is spelled, and finds every word with the same sounds from the stressed vowel to the end. That is why it knows 'through' rhymes with 'blue'. After the perfect rhymes it lists near rhymes, words with the same vowel sound, and words with the same ending.
- What is the difference between a perfect rhyme and a near rhyme?
- A perfect rhyme matches every sound from the stressed vowel to the end, like rib and crib. A near rhyme, also called a slant rhyme, is almost the same: the vowel matches and the final consonant is a close relative, like rib and big or rib and ship.
- What rhymes with orange?
- Nothing rhymes with orange perfectly among everyday words. The closest near rhymes are storage, forage, porridge and foreign. Purple, silver, month and wolf have the same problem; type any of them to see their closest rhymes.
- Why does the finder ask how I say a word?
- Some words are pronounced two ways, and each has different rhymes: read rhymes with need or with bed, live with give or with drive, wind with pinned or with find. Pick the pronunciation you mean and the rhymes change.
- Can I find rhymes with a certain number of syllables?
- Yes. Use the syllables filter to show only one- to five-syllable words, which helps a rhyme fit the rhythm of a line.
- Does it find rhymes for names?
- Yes. You can type first names, surnames and place names, and switch on Names & places to see names among the results as well.
- Why are some words missing from the results?
- Rare and old-fashioned words are hidden until you switch on Rare words, and swear words and crude terms are left out. You can still type those words to find rhymes for them.
- Is the rhyme finder free?
- Yes. It is free with no sign-up, and it runs in your browser: the words you type are not sent anywhere.
About this page
The Rhyming Words is a free tool from Linguaholic, made by Marcel Iseli. It runs in your browser, with no sign-up. Last updated .
Word data: Linguaholic’s English dictionary, built from the open ENABLE and SCOWL word lists, the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (pronunciation and syllables) and Princeton WordNet (meanings). Licenses and notices.
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