Do These Words Rhyme?

What the verdicts mean

The checker compares the sounds of the two words, not their spelling. It reports the closest match it finds, in this order:

1. Perfect rhyme. Same sound from the stressed vowel to the end, with a different start: light and night.
2. Identical sound. The rhyming part and the sound before it also match: light and delight.
3. Near rhyme, same ending consonants. Cake and luck both end in a “k” sound.
4. Near rhyme, same vowel. Day and late share a vowel and end differently.
5. Eye rhyme only. The last three letters match but the sounds do not: love and move.
6. No rhyme.

Some words have more than one accepted pronunciation, such as read (“red” or “reed”). The checker tries every pronunciation of both words and tells you which one produced the match.

To see every rhyme for a word, use the rhyme finder or the slant rhyme finder. For the difference between the types, read perfect versus slant rhyme. A good test case is the word rhyme itself.