Slant Rhyme Finder

How the near rhymes are sorted

A slant rhyme (also called a near or imperfect rhyme) is a pair of words that echo each other without matching all the way from the stressed vowel. This tool sorts them by the part that does match.

Same vowel, different ending pairs words with the same stressed vowel and different endings, like day and late. Same ending, different vowel pairs words whose ending consonants match, like cake and luck. A word that ends in a vowel has no ending consonants, so day and you are not matched just for being open sounds. Eye rhymes share their last three letters but not their sound, like love and move.

A word can appear in more than one group, and the total counts it each time it appears. Perfect rhymes are left out on purpose; for those, use the rhyme finder. To test a single pair, try the rhyme checker. The perfect versus slant rhyme guide explains when each kind works, and the lists on words that rhyme with love show near rhymes in a worked example.