Rhyming words
Type a word to see every word in our lists that rhymes with it perfectly, grouped by number of syllables. Rhymes come from pronunciations, not spelling: everything from the last stressed vowel to the end must sound the same, so NIGHT rhymes with BITE but not with WEIGHT. NIGHT has 164 perfect rhymes; ORANGE has none.
164 perfect rhymes for NIGHT (sound: N AY1 T)
Bold = in SCOWL size ≤ 50 (common).
1 syllable 33
- bight
- bite
- blight
- bright
- byte
- cite
- fight
- flight
- fright
- height
- kite
- light
- lite
- might
- mite
- plight
- quite
- right
- rite
- sight
- site
- slight
- spite
- sprite
- tight
- trite
- white
- wight
- wright
- write
- hight
- kyte
- sleight
2 syllables 71
- airtight
- alight
- alright
- backbite
- birthright
- bullfight
- calcite
- campsite
- contrite
- daylight
- delight
- despite
- dogfight
- downright
- excite
- eyesight
- firefight
- flashlight
- floodlight
- fluorite
- foresight
- forthright
- fortnight
- frostbite
- goodnight
- graphite
- gunfight
- headlight
- highlight
- hindsight
- ignite
- incite
- indict
- insight
- invite
- lignite
- limelight
- midnight
- moonlight
- nonwhite
- outright
- playwright
- polite
- recite
- rewrite
- searchlight
- shipwright
- skylight
- snakebite
- spotlight
- starlight
- stoplight
- sunlight
- twilight
- upright
- uptight
- website
- wheelwright
- backlight
- brucite
- footlight
- indite
- inflight
- jadeite
- onsite
- soundbite
- sporophyte
- sticktight
- sulfite
- sylvite
- wainwright
3 syllables 52
- acolyte
- anthracite
- apartheid
- appetite
- candlelight
- copyright
- dynamite
- erudite
- expedite
- extradite
- gigabyte
- impolite
- kilobyte
- leukocyte
- megabyte
- neophyte
- oversight
- overwrite
- parasite
- plebiscite
- recondite
- satellite
- socialite
- stalagmite
- terabyte
- tripartite
- underwrite
- watertight
- andesite
- anorthite
- apatite
- biotite
- cryolite
- diorite
- disinvite
- dolomite
- epsomite
- exabyte
- hematite
- lazulite
- lymphocyte
- magnesite
- magnetite
- muscovite
- niccolite
- overflight
- pegmatite
- phagocyte
- phlogopite
- phosphorite
- reignite
- reinvite
4 syllables 8
- electrolyte
- hermaphrodite
- meteorite
- gametophyte
- granulocyte
- hemimorphite
- metabolite
- overexcite
Same ending sound, same consonants before it (homophones and identical rhymes) 16
- ammonite
- bentonite
- dunite
- finite
- franklinite
- knight
- limonite
- monzonite
- nite
- overnight
- reunite
- selenite
- suburbanite
- tonight
- unite
- urbanite
In numbers
| Words with pronunciations | 117,421 |
|---|---|
| Different rhyme sounds | 25,933 |
| Perfect rhymes for NIGHT | 164 |
| Perfect rhymes for TIME | 39 |
| Rhymes for ORANGE / PURPLE | 0 / 0 |
How rhymes are found
Each word in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary is written as sounds, with the stress marked: NIGHT is N AY1 T. We cut every pronunciation at its last stressed vowel and group words whose endings match – NIGHT, LIGHT and BITE all end in AY T. Long words are also grouped by their last vowel with secondary stress, so SATELLITE rhymes with NIGHT and PANTOMIME with TIME, as they do in songs. Words that also share the consonants before that vowel – KNIGHT and NITE for NIGHT, or TONIGHT – are homophones or identical rhymes, not perfect rhymes, and are listed separately. A word with several pronunciations, such as LEAD (L EH1 D and L IY1 D), gets a separate list for each.
The dictionary also contains many names and abbreviations. Rhyme results are limited to words in ENABLE or in SCOWL up to size 70, and the same offensive words we hide everywhere else are excluded. Pronunciations are American English.
More on rhyme types in how rhymes work. To count beats in a line, use the syllable counter.
Questions people ask
What rhymes with orange?
No common English word is a perfect rhyme for ORANGE. Our pronunciation data has two pronunciations (AO1 R AH0 N JH and AO1 R IH0 N JH) and no other word in our lists ends with the same sounds. Poets use near rhymes such as DOOR HINGE instead.
What rhymes with purple?
PURPLE has no perfect rhyme among the words in our lists either (0 found). HURTLE and CIRCLE are close but not exact.
What is a perfect rhyme?
Two words rhyme perfectly when everything from the last stressed vowel to the end sounds the same: NIGHT and LIGHT, NATION and STATION. The sound before that vowel must differ, otherwise it is the same word or a homophone.
Why are some rhymes I expected missing?
The tool uses American pronunciations from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Words pronounced differently in British English, or slant rhymes like LOVE and MOVE (which only look alike), are not listed as perfect rhymes.
How many words rhyme with night?
164 perfect rhymes in our lists, from BITE and LIGHT to SATELLITE; KNIGHT, NITE and TONIGHT are listed separately as identical rhymes. TIME has 39 perfect rhymes and LOVE 7.
Sources
Updated by Daniel Gavalec. Every number on this page is calculated from our word list by a script – see how the word list is built. Found an error? Tell us.
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