Random Rhymes Generator: Say the Rhymes, Then Check

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Random Rhymes Generator: Say the Rhymes, Then Check

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Each press deals one word. Say as many rhymes as you can, then press Show rhymes: the card lists six to ten words that rhyme with it exactly and names the sound they share, such as -ight.

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Press Pick another word. Say every rhyme you can think of, then press Show rhymes. The line lists common words that rhyme exactly, in alphabet order, and ends with the shared sound. After the first press a Vowel sound list appears under the button; it keeps to one sound, such as long a.

Rhymes go by sound, not spelling

Right rhymes with white and site, stuff with rough and tough, and bed with head and bread. Every set was matched by pronunciation, so the spelling can surprise you: journal rhymes with colonel.

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What counts as a rhyme here?

An exact rhyme: the last stressed vowel and every sound after it match, as in light and night. Near rhymes are left out, and so is a word that sounds exactly like the card's word, such as write for right.

Whose pronunciation do the rhymes follow?

General American, as recorded in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. A word was kept only where Wiktionary's rhyme page for that sound lists it too. In other accents a few pairs may differ.

Why are some common rhymes missing?

Each line stops at ten words, the commonest first, and skips words unsuited to a children's page. A word with two pronunciations, such as read or wind, is left out of every set.

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Long a, as in say 17

  • age backstage, cage, disengage, engage, gauge, page, rage, sage, stage, wage. All end in the sound -age.
  • fail mail, nail, pale, prevail, sail, sale, scale, tale, trail, wail. All end in the sound -ail.
  • gain contain, explain, maintain, obtain, pain, plane, rain, remain, train. All end in the sound -ain.
  • gaze amaze, appraise, blaze, glaze, graze, haze, phase, phrase, praise, raise. All end in the sound -aze.
  • later cater, creator, equator, freighter, greater, traitor, waiter. All end in the sound -ater.
  • make ache, awake, bake, break, mistake, sake, shake, snake, take, wake. All end in the sound -ake.
  • nation creation, formation, location, relation, sensation, station, vacation. All end in the sound -ation.
  • paint acquaint, complaint, faint, quaint, restraint, saint. All end in the sound -aint.
  • place ace, base, case, chase, face, pace, race, replace, space, trace. All end in the sound -ace.
  • same aim, blame, claim, exclaim, flame, frame, game, name, proclaim, shame. All end in the sound -ame.
  • say away, day, display, gray, lay, pay, play, stay, today, way. All end in the sound -ay.
  • shape ape, cape, drape, escape, grape, scrape, tape. All end in the sound -ape.
  • state create, date, debate, great, late, rate, relate, straight, wait, weight. All end in the sound -ate.
  • table able, cable, disable, enable, label, sable, stable, unable, unstable. All end in the sound -able.
  • taste baste, distaste, haste, paste, waist, waste. All end in the sound -aste.
  • trade afraid, aid, brigade, fade, grade, invade, maid, persuade, shade. All end in the sound -ade.
  • wave behave, brave, cave, crave, engrave, save, shave. All end in the sound -ave.
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Long e, as in see 15

  • brief beef, belief, chief, grief, leaf, reef, relief, thief. All end in the sound -ief.
  • dream beam, deem, extreme, gleam, scheme, scream, seem, stream, team, theme. All end in the sound -eam.
  • feel appeal, deal, heel, meal, real, reveal, seal, steal, steel, wheel. All end in the sound -eel.
  • field afield, concealed, healed, revealed, shield, wield, yield. All end in the sound -ield.
  • freeze appease, breeze, cheese, ease, overseas, please, seize, sneeze, squeeze. All end in the sound -eeze.
  • healing appealing, ceiling, dealing, feeling, revealing, sealing, stealing. All end in the sound -ealing.
  • keep asleep, cheap, creep, deep, heap, leap, sheep, sleep, sweep, weep. All end in the sound -eep.
  • lease apiece, cease, crease, grease, niece, peace, piece, police, release. All end in the sound -ease.
  • leave achieve, believe, conceive, heave, perceive, receive, relieve, retrieve. All end in the sound -eave.
  • mean canteen, clean, green, lean, machine, queen, routine, scene, screen. All end in the sound -ean.
  • need exceed, feed, indeed, plead, precede, proceed, seed, speed, succeed. All end in the sound -eed.
  • reach beach, beech, bleach, each, peach, preach, speech, teach. All end in the sound -each.
  • see agree, be, bee, degree, flee, free, guarantee, key, knee, tree. All end in the sound -ee.
  • speak cheek, creak, peak, peek, seek, sneak, technique, unique, weak, week. All end in the sound -eak.
  • treat beat, complete, defeat, eat, heat, meet, repeat, seat, sheet, street. All end in the sound -eat.

Long i, as in try 13

  • drive alive, arrive, deprive, derive, dive, five, revive, strive, survive. All end in the sound -ive.
  • find behind, bind, blind, grind, inclined, kind, lined, mind, remind, unwind. All end in the sound -ind.
  • like alike, dislike, hike, pike, spike, strike, unlike. All end in the sound -ike.
  • line assign, decline, define, design, mine, nine, resign, shine, sign, vine. All end in the sound -ine.
  • price advice, concise, device, dice, ice, precise, rice, slice, thrice, twice. All end in the sound -ice.
  • right bright, fight, flight, invite, light, night, quite, sight, site, white. All end in the sound -ight.
  • rise advise, arise, comprise, eyes, prize, revise, size, surprise, wise. All end in the sound -ise.
  • scribe describe, inscribe, jibe, prescribe, subscribe, transcribe. All end in the sound -ibe.
  • side aside, decide, divide, guide, hide, outside, provide, ride, slide, wide. All end in the sound -ide.
  • smile awhile, compile, file, isle, mile, pile, style, tile, while, wile. All end in the sound -ile.
  • time climb, dime, lime, prime, rhyme, slime, sublime. All end in the sound -ime.
  • try apply, buy, cry, deny, eye, fly, high, lie, reply, supply. All end in the sound -y.
  • wipe gripe, pipe, ripe, stripe, swipe, type. All end in the sound -ipe.

Long o, as in go 9

  • coast boast, ghost, host, post, roast, toast. All end in the sound -oast.
  • go ago, blow, flow, grow, know, low, show, slow, so, throw. All end in the sound -o.
  • hold behold, bold, cold, fold, gold, mold, old, unfold, uphold, withhold. All end in the sound -old.
  • joke broke, evoke, folk, oak, poke, provoke, smoke, soak, spoke, stroke. All end in the sound -oke.
  • nose compose, disclose, expose, impose, oppose, pose, propose, rose, suppose. All end in the sound -ose.
  • road code, corrode, explode, load, mode, reload, toad, unload. All end in the sound -oad.
  • throat boat, coat, denote, devote, float, note, promote, quote, remote, vote. All end in the sound -oat.
  • tone alone, bone, known, loan, moan, own, phone, postpone, stone, unknown. All end in the sound -one.
  • whole bowl, control, enroll, foal, goal, patrol, pole, role, roll, soul. All end in the sound -ole.

Long u, as in true 11

  • boot commute, compute, dilute, dispute, fruit, recruit, root, shoot, suit. All end in the sound -oot.
  • food brood, conclude, exclude, include, mood, protrude, rude, subdued. All end in the sound -ood.
  • fusion allusion, conclusion, confusion, diffusion, illusion, intrusion. All end in the sound -usion.
  • loose deduce, goose, induce, introduce, juice, moose, profuse, reduce, sluice. All end in the sound -oose.
  • move approve, disprove, groove, improve, prove, remove. All end in the sound -ove.
  • muse accuse, amuse, bruise, choose, confuse, cruise, fuse, lose, news. All end in the sound -use.
  • room assume, bloom, boom, broom, consume, gloom, loom, perfume, presume. All end in the sound -oom.
  • school cool, mule, pool, rule, stool, tool. All end in the sound -ool.
  • soon afternoon, balloon, cocoon, dune, lagoon, monsoon, moon, spoon, tune. All end in the sound -oon.
  • troop coop, droop, group, hoop, loop, regroup, soup, stoop, swoop, whoop. All end in the sound -oop.
  • true blue, crew, do, glue, new, pursue, review, shoe, too, view. All end in the sound -ue.

Short vowels, as in hat 75

  • act attract, distract, enact, exact, fact, intact, react, subtract, tract. All end in the sound -act.
  • back attack, black, crack, lack, pack, quack, shack, snack, stack, track. All end in the sound -ack.
  • bad ad, add, dad, glad, lad, mad, pad, sad. All end in the sound -ad.
  • bank blank, clank, flank, frank, plank, prank, rank, tank, thank. All end in the sound -ank.
  • bed ahead, bread, head, instead, overhead, red, shed, spread, thread, tread. All end in the sound -ed.
  • best arrest, chest, crest, guest, nest, request, rest, suggest, test, west. All end in the sound -est.
  • big dig, fig, gig, jig, pig, rig, twig, wig. All end in the sound -ig.
  • block clock, dock, flock, knock, lock, mock, rock, shock, stock, unlock. All end in the sound -ock.
  • bond blond, correspond, fond, pond, respond, wand. All end in the sound -ond.
  • brush blush, crush, flush, gush, hush, plush, rush. All end in the sound -ush.
  • bunk chunk, dunk, junk, monk, plunk, skunk, trunk. All end in the sound -unk.
  • camp amp, champ, clamp, cramp, damp, encamp, lamp, ramp, revamp, stamp. All end in the sound -amp.
  • catch attach, batch, dispatch, hatch, latch, match, patch, scratch. All end in the sound -atch.
  • cent consent, event, extent, invent, percent, prevent, rent, resent, tent. All end in the sound -ent.
  • check deck, fleck, neck, peck, speck, wreck. All end in the sound -eck.
  • club dub, grub, hub, rub, scrub, shrub, snub, stub, sub, tub. All end in the sound -ub.
  • cut but, hut, nut, putt, rebut, rut, shut, strut. All end in the sound -ut.
  • dust adjust, crust, disgust, distrust, entrust, gust, rust, thrust, trust. All end in the sound -ust.
  • end attend, bend, extend, friend, intend, recommend, send, spend, tend. All end in the sound -end.
  • flag bag, brag, crag, drag, lag, rag, sag, snag, tag, wag. All end in the sound -ag.
  • flash ash, cash, clash, crash, dash, lash, sash, slash, smash, splash. All end in the sound -ash.
  • glance advance, chance, dance, enhance, lance, prance, stance, trance. All end in the sound -ance.
  • grab cab, crab, dab, drab, jab, lab, slab. All end in the sound -ab.
  • grunt affront, blunt, bunt, confront, front, hunt, punt, shunt, stunt. All end in the sound -unt.
  • hat bat, cat, chat, flat, mat, pat, rat, slat. All end in the sound -at.
  • jam clam, cram, dam, gram, ham, lamb, ram, slam. All end in the sound -am.
  • jump bump, clump, dump, lump, plump, pump, slump, stump, thump. All end in the sound -ump.
  • kid bid, forbid, lid, mid, rid, skid. All end in the sound -id.
  • less dress, express, guess, mess, possess, press, stress, success, yes. All end in the sound -ess.
  • let bet, debt, forget, net, regret, set, sweat, threat, wet, yet. All end in the sound -et.
  • lift adrift, drift, gift, rift, shift, sift, swift. All end in the sound -ift.
  • lip drip, equip, grip, rip, ship, sip, slip, strip, tip, trip. All end in the sound -ip.
  • list assist, enlist, exist, fist, insist, mist, persist, resist, twist, wrist. All end in the sound -ist.
  • lung clung, hung, rung, strung, stung, sung, swung, tongue, unsung, young. All end in the sound -ung.
  • man ban, clan, fan, pan, plan, scan, span, tan. All end in the sound -an.
  • matter batter, chatter, clatter, flatter, latter, scatter, shatter, spatter. All end in the sound -atter.
  • miss abyss, amiss, bliss, dismiss, hiss, kiss. All end in the sound -iss.
  • mission commission, condition, musician, position, tradition, transition. All end in the sound -ission.
  • mutter butter, flutter, gutter, shutter, sputter, stutter, utter. All end in the sound -utter.
  • never clever, endeavor, ever, forever, however, sever. All end in the sound -ever.
  • not blot, dot, hot, plot, pot, rot, shot, spot, squat, trot. All end in the sound -ot.
  • pass amass, brass, class, gas, glass, grass, mass. All end in the sound -ass.
  • past aghast, blast, cast, fast, mast, vast. All end in the sound -ast.
  • pitch bewitch, ditch, enrich, hitch, itch, rich, stitch, switch, twitch, witch. All end in the sound -itch.
  • plant ant, chant, enchant, grant, pant, scant, slant, supplant, transplant. All end in the sound -ant.
  • plastic drastic, elastic, fantastic, gymnastic, sarcastic, scholastic. All end in the sound -astic.
  • plug bug, chug, hug, jug, lug, rug, shrug, slug, smug, tug. All end in the sound -ug.
  • print flint, glint, hint, lint, mint, sprint, squint, tint. All end in the sound -int.
  • render defender, fender, slender, splendor, surrender, tender, vendor. All end in the sound -ender.
  • run done, fun, outrun, overdone, shun, son, spun, stun, sun, ton. All end in the sound -un.
  • section collection, connection, election, protection, reflection, selection. All end in the sound -ection.
  • sense commence, defense, dense, expense, fence, hence, immense, intense, tense. All end in the sound -ense.
  • session confession, expression, impression, possession, profession, recession. All end in the sound -ession.
  • sit admit, bit, commit, fit, hit, quit, spit, split, submit, wit. All end in the sound -it.
  • snap cap, clap, flap, gap, lap, map, tap, trap, unwrap, wrap. All end in the sound -ap.
  • staff behalf, calf, giraffe, graph, half, laugh. All end in the sound -aff.
  • stand band, command, demand, expand, land, sand, strand, understand, withstand. All end in the sound -and.
  • static attic, emphatic, erratic, fanatic, schematic, thematic. All end in the sound -atic.
  • still bill, chill, drill, fill, fulfill, hill, mill, shrill, skill, thrill. All end in the sound -ill.
  • stop atop, chop, cop, crop, flop, hop, mop, pop, prop, shop. All end in the sound -op.
  • stuff bluff, buff, cuff, enough, fluff, gruff, puff, rebuff, rough, tough. All end in the sound -uff.
  • stumble crumble, fumble, grumble, humble, jumble, mumble, rumble, tumble. All end in the sound -umble.
  • sum become, come, crumb, drum, gum, hum, plum, strum, succumb, thumb. All end in the sound -um.
  • swim brim, dim, grim, gym, hymn, limb, rim, skim, slim, trim. All end in the sound -im.
  • tell cell, compel, hotel, personnel, sell, shell, smell, swell, well, yell. All end in the sound -ell.
  • then den, glen, hen, men, pen, ten, wren, yen. All end in the sound -en.
  • thick brick, click, flick, kick, lick, pick, quick, sick, stick, trick. All end in the sound -ick.
  • thing bring, cling, fling, king, ring, sing, spring, string, swing, wing. All end in the sound -ing.
  • think blink, drink, ink, link, pink, shrink, sink, stink, wink, zinc. All end in the sound -ink.
  • tilt built, gilt, guilt, hilt, lilt, quilt, stilt, wilt. All end in the sound -ilt.
  • truck buck, chuck, cluck, duck, luck, pluck, tuck. All end in the sound -uck.
  • vector collector, detector, director, elector, nectar, reflector, sector. All end in the sound -ector.
  • vision collision, decision, division, envision, precision, revision. All end in the sound -ision.
  • win begin, chin, din, grin, in, skin, spin, thin, twin, within. All end in the sound -in.
  • witty city, committee, ditty, gritty, pity, pretty. All end in the sound -itty.

R sounds, as in far 25

  • air bear, care, compare, declare, hair, prepare, share, stare, there, wear. All end in the sound -air.
  • cord aboard, accord, afford, award, board, bored, gourd, horde, reward, ward. All end in the sound -ord.
  • dark arc, bark, mark, park, remark, shark, spark. All end in the sound -ark.
  • dirt alert, assert, avert, dessert, divert, exert, hurt, inert, shirt, skirt. All end in the sound -irt.
  • far car, guitar, jar, par, scar, star, tar. All end in the sound -ar.
  • form conform, dorm, inform, norm, perform, reform, storm, swarm, warm. All end in the sound -orm.
  • girl curl, earl, hurl, pearl, swirl, twirl, whirl. All end in the sound -irl.
  • hairy airy, dairy, fairy, prairie, scary, vary, wary. All end in the sound -airy.
  • hard card, discard, disregard, guard, regard, yard. All end in the sound -ard.
  • horn adorn, born, corn, mourn, reborn, scorn, thorn, torn, warn, worn. All end in the sound -orn.
  • horse coarse, course, endorse, enforce, force, reinforce, remorse, source. All end in the sound -orse.
  • journal colonel, eternal, external, internal, maternal, nocturnal, vernal. All end in the sound -ernal.
  • more before, explore, floor, ignore, pour, restore, roar, score, shore, store. All end in the sound -ore.
  • nurse disperse, diverse, immerse, purse, reverse, transverse, verse, worse. All end in the sound -urse.
  • quirk clerk, lurk, overwork, shirk, smirk, work. All end in the sound -irk.
  • serve curve, deserve, nerve, observe, preserve, reserve, swerve, verve. All end in the sound -erve.
  • short court, distort, port, report, resort, snort, sort, sport, support. All end in the sound -ort.
  • spur blur, burr, fur, infer, occur, prefer, recur, refer, sir, stir. All end in the sound -ur.
  • start apart, art, cart, chart, dart, depart, heart, part, smart. All end in the sound -art.
  • sure assure, cure, endure, ensure, insure, lure, mature, pure, secure, tour. All end in the sound -ure.
  • term affirm, confirm, firm, germ, squirm, worm. All end in the sound -erm.
  • third absurd, bird, blurred, heard, herd, word. All end in the sound -ird.
  • turn adjourn, burn, concern, discern, earn, fern, learn, return, stern, yearn. All end in the sound -urn.
  • urge converge, diverge, merge, submerge, surge, verge. All end in the sound -urge.
  • year appear, career, cheer, clear, fear, mere, near, peer, rear, severe. All end in the sound -ear.

Other vowels, as in now 12

  • all ball, call, crawl, hall, haul, install, small, stall, tall, wall. All end in the sound -all.
  • bounce announce, denounce, flounce, ounce, pounce, pronounce. All end in the sound -ounce.
  • boy annoy, deploy, destroy, employ, enjoy, joy, toy. All end in the sound -oy.
  • down brown, clown, crown, downtown, frown, gown, noun, town, uptown. All end in the sound -own.
  • draw caw, claw, flaw, gnaw, jaw, paw, saw, thaw, withdraw. All end in the sound -aw.
  • long along, belong, gong, prolong, song, strong, throng, wrong. All end in the sound -ong.
  • loud aloud, avowed, cloud, crowd, endowed, proud. All end in the sound -oud.
  • now allow, bough, brow, cow, disallow, endow, vow. All end in the sound -ow.
  • power bower, cower, devour, flower, glower, shower, tower. All end in the sound -ower.
  • shout about, doubt, drought, out, scout, spout, sprout, stout, throughout. All end in the sound -out.
  • soil boil, broil, coil, foil, oil, recoil, spoil, toil. All end in the sound -oil.
  • sound astound, bound, found, ground, mound, pound, profound, round, surround. All end in the sound -ound.

How this list was compiled: Rhyme sets computed by script and then read word by word. Pronunciations are from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (cmudict.dict and its LICENSE file from https://github.com/cmusphinx/cmudict, downloaded 2026-09-30), whose license notice reads: 'Copyright (C) 1993-2015 Carnegie Mellon University. All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. The contents of this file are deemed to be source code. 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY NOR ITS EMPLOYEES BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.' The rule: two words rhyme when the last stressed vowel and every sound after it are the same in the dictionary's first pronunciation of each; a word whose listed pronunciations give two different rhymes (read, wind, live) is left out of every set, and a word that sounds exactly like the card's word (write for right) is not counted as its rhyme. Words come only from Princeton WordNet 3.1 lemmas that carry a sense tag count, together with the words of this site's noun, verb, adjective, adverb and song-word lists, and every one has an English Wiktionary entry (wikitext read through https://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php on 2026-09-30). Second source: a word stays in a set only when the rhymes line of its own Wiktionary entry files it under the same rhyme as the rest of the set and Wiktionary's Rhymes page for that sound (address in x.page, read through the same API the same day) lists it; a pair the two sources disagree on is left out, and one sound with no Rhymes page was dropped. Each card gives the commonest rhymes first chosen by WordNet tag count, at most ten, printed in alphabet order; a sound with fewer than six such rhymes has no card, which is why the list holds 177 sets and not the 250 first planned. The whole list was read for a children's page, and rude, grim, alcohol and insult words and rare or regional words were taken out by hand, with ten sets that read badly. The card's word is the commonest word of the set whose spelling shows the sound plainly, and 13 were chosen by hand for a plainer spelling (bed, not head, for -ed). The shared sound at the end of each line is that word's spelling from its vowel on, so it is a plain spelling and not a phonetic one. Vowel groups follow the stressed vowel: a vowel followed by r, and the vowel of bird, go under R sounds; the vowels of saw, now and boy go under Other vowels. Beats is the number of syllables in the card's word. After the file was written a script read it back and checked every word of every set against both sources again. Licence: own work; pronunciations checked against the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD-style license, notice quoted in source)