Rhyming words, grouped so you can use them
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Example results
Perfect rhymes for light
Example: perfect rhymes for “light”. Search a word to see every match.
1 syllable 12 of 39
- bright
- fight
- flight
- height
- might
- night
- quite
- right
- site
- tight
- white
- write
2 syllables 6 of 51
- despite
- insight
- invite
- midnight
- tonight
- website
3 syllables 6 of 27
- appetite
- copyright
- dynamite
- gigabyte
- overnight
- oversight
4 syllables 1 of 2
- meteorite
Pronunciations: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. About the data
What makes words rhyme
Two words rhyme when they sound the same from the last stressed vowel to the end. Spelling does not decide it. Light and bright rhyme because both end in the same long “eye” vowel followed by a “t” sound. Though and go rhyme even though they share few letters, while love and move look like a pair and are not one.
The stressed vowel is the vowel in the loudest syllable of the word. In above that is the second syllable, so above rhymes with love and dove. Everything before that vowel should differ. Words such as delight, which only add a prefix to light, are kept apart as identical sounds, because the rhyming part and the sound just before it are the same.
Perfect and near. A perfect rhyme matches from the stressed vowel on. A near rhyme (also called a slant rhyme) matches only part of that: the vowel, as in day and late, or the ending consonants, as in cake and luck. Songwriters use near rhymes all the time because they sound less sing-song. Perfect versus slant rhyme explains the difference with examples.
A tip for choosing
Read the 1-syllable group first, then say your candidate aloud next to the original. If the ending sounds the same, it rhymes.
Start with a sound family
A sound family is a set of words that share one ending. These are the most common ones for early readers and first poems. Each list is generated from the same pronunciation data the tools use, showing common one-syllable words. The full rhyming words list has more families, with a print button.
- bake
- brake
- break
- cake
- drake
- fake
- lake
- make
- quake
- sake
- shake
- snake
- stake
- steak
- take
- wake
- bright
- byte
- fight
- flight
- height
- knight
- light
- might
- night
- quite
- right
- sight
- site
- tight
- white
- write
- bay
- day
- gay
- gray
- grey
- hey
- jay
- lay
- may
- pay
- play
- ray
- say
- stay
- they
- way
- at
- bat
- cat
- chat
- fat
- flat
- hat
- mat
- matte
- pat
- rat
- sat
- scat
- tat
- that
- vat
- blow
- flow
- go
- grow
- know
- low
- no
- oh
- pro
- row
- show
- slow
- snow
- so
- though
- throw
Where to go next
Common questions
What words rhyme with you?
Words that end in the same “oo” sound: blue, true, new, shoe, two, who, through and zoo. The spelling varies a lot, which is why a lookup by sound helps. Words that rhyme with you lists them by syllable.
How do you teach rhyming words?
Start by listening, not reading. Say two words aloud, such as cat and hat, and ask whether the ends sound the same. Move on to supplying a rhyme for a word, and only then connect the sounds to letters. Short sound families like -at and -ake work well for this. How to teach rhyming goes through the steps.