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Rhyming Words
Type a word to find perfect rhymes, near rhymes and sound-alike words, sorted by syllable count — handy for songs, poems, raps and word games.
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Frequently asked questions
How does it decide what rhymes?
It uses pronunciations, not spelling. Each word’s sounds come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, and two words are perfect rhymes when their sounds match from the last stressed vowel to the end — so “time” rhymes with “climb” and “sublime” but not with “tomb”. Words that sound identical, like “right” and “write”, are listed under Sounds like instead.
What counts as a near rhyme?
Near (or slant) rhymes share part of the rhyming sound. The tool includes words with the same vowel sounds but different consonants (“time” and “line”) and words with the same consonants after a different stressed vowel (“love” and “live”). They are sorted by how few sounds differ, and matches that share the final sound come first.
What does Sounds like show?
Words whose whole pronunciation is within one sound of your word (two for longer words) — a sound swapped, added or removed. Homophones such as “right” and “write” appear first. It is useful for puns, finding a word you half remember, or checking words that might be confused when spoken.
Why doesn’t “orange” have any perfect rhymes?
Because no word in the dictionary shares its ending sound — it is one of the famous English words with no perfect rhyme. Switch to Near rhymes to get options such as “porridge”, “storage” and “foreign”. The same goes for words like “month”, “purple” and “chimney”.
What if my word isn’t in the dictionary?
The dictionary covers about 51,000 English words. For a word it doesn’t know, such as a new or made-up word, the tool borrows the pronunciation of the known word with the longest matching spelling ending and says which word it used. That estimate works for perfect and near rhymes but not for Sounds like.
How are syllables counted?
From the dictionary’s pronunciation: each vowel sound is one syllable, so “banana” has 3 and “recipe” has 3. Some words have more than one pronunciation — “read” or “either”, for example — and you can switch between them above the results.
About this tool
This rhyming words finder looks up how a word is pronounced and finds other words that end with the same sounds. Because it compares sounds rather than letters, it catches rhymes spelled differently (“through” and “blue”) and skips words that only look alike (“cough” and “though”). Results are grouped by syllable count, so you can pick a rhyme that fits the rhythm of a line.
Three kinds of match are available. Perfect rhymes match from the last stressed vowel to the end of the word, which is what most songs and verse use. Near rhymes loosen that to a shared vowel or a shared ending consonant, the slant rhymes common in rap and modern poetry. Sounds like compares the whole word and returns homophones and close sound-alikes, useful for puns and for finding a word on the tip of your tongue.
Everyday words are shown in darker text and listed ahead of rare words that match equally well; tick Everyday words only to hide rare dictionary words. Clicking any result looks up its rhymes in turn, which makes it easy to explore a whole family of sounds while writing lyrics, poems, greeting-card verses or children’s rhymes.
Pronunciations come from the Carnegie Mellon University Pronouncing Dictionary (cmudict), used under its BSD-style licence, trimmed to about 51,000 words that also appear in the ENABLE2K or SCOWL word lists and with slurs and profanity removed. SCOWL, by Kevin Atkinson, also supplies the everyday-word marking. Both licence notices ship with the data at /data/words/LICENSE.txt. The dictionary (about 960 KB of plain text) loads on your first search and all matching runs in your browser.