Phrase Hound found 40 phrases and 8 compound words that contain rhymes. The most common are listed below. Open rhymes in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 40
- nursery rhymesplural of nursery rhyme: A short poem or song for children, mostly anonymous or handed down by folklore
- rhymes-with-richA bitch.
- counting rhymesplural of counting rhyme: Any of the rhymes used in counting-out games.
- end rhymesplural of end rhyme: The form of rhyme (rhyming) which uses sameness of sound of the last words of lines from the vowels in their stressed syllables to their ends.
- exact rhymesplural of exact rhyme: A perfect rhyme.
- eye rhymesplural of eye rhyme: A pair of words (or syllables) that, because of their spelling, look as if they rhyme but, because of different pronunciation, do not. Many eye rhymes are historic rhymes.
- full rhymesplural of full rhyme: A perfect rhyme.
- half rhymesplural of half rhyme: A form of imperfect rhyme in which the final (coda) consonants of stressed syllables (and, in modern English poetry, any following syllables to the end of the words) are identical in sound, but the vowels of the …
- internal rhymesplural of internal rhyme: The rhyming of words (in modern English poetry) or of stressed syllables (in old Germanic poetry) within the same line of a verse.
- near rhymesplural of near rhyme: A form of imperfect rhyme in which the final (coda) consonants of stressed syllables (and, in modern English poetry, any following syllables to the end of the words) are identical in sound, but the vowels of the …
- perfect rhymesplural of perfect rhyme: A form of rhyme in which the vowels and final (coda) consonants of stressed syllables (and, in modern English poetry, any following syllables to the end of the words) are identical in sound.
- tail rhymesplural of tail rhyme: rhyme in which the rhyming lines in each verse are followed by a shorter line; these shorter lines sometimes rhyme with each other
- true rhymesplural of true rhyme: A form of rhyme in which the vowels and final (coda) consonants of stressed syllables (and, in modern English poetry, any following syllables to the end of the words) are identical in sound.
- slant rhymesplural of slant rhyme: A half rhyme.
- sprung rhymesplural of sprung rhyme: A form of rhyme in which the number of syllables varies, the stressed syllable being the first one.
- broken rhymesplural of broken rhyme: The splitting of the final word in a line of poetry (onto the next line) such that a rhyme is formed from a syllable other than the last.
- female rhymesplural of female rhyme: feminine rhyme
- feminine rhymesplural of feminine rhyme: A disyllabic rhyme that occurs on an unaccented final syllable (a feminine ending).
- forced rhymesplural of forced rhyme: A rhyme that is produced by changing the normal spelling of a word, or by changing the normal structure of a phrase.
- head rhymesplural of head rhyme: The use of alliteration at the beginning of stressed syllables
- historic rhymesplural of historic rhyme: Rhymes that were full rhymes in an older stage of the language, but have since become eye rhymes owing to sound changes. Historic rhymes are used by historical linguists to reconstruct the phonology of old …
- male rhymesplural of male rhyme: A rhyme in which only the last syllable agrees, as in "laid", "afraid", "dismayed".
- mind rhymesplural of mind rhyme: A form of rhyme in which a rhyming word is omitted, and left to be "heard" only in the reader's mind.
- oblique rhymesplural of oblique rhyme: half rhyme
- quasi-rhymesplural of quasi-rhyme: Somewhat of a rhyme.
Compound words 8
- rhymesterA rhymer; a poetaster
- rhymestersplural of rhymester: A rhymer; a poetaster
- interrhymesthird-person singular simple present indicative of interrhyme: To rhyme with each other.
- misrhymesplural of misrhyme: A false rhyme.
- monorhymesplural of monorhyme: A poem or rhyme scheme whose lines all end with the same rhyme.
- outrhymesthird-person singular simple present indicative of outrhyme: To surpass in rhyming.
- pararhymesplural of pararhyme: A form of rhyme having the same consonants but different vowels.
- holorhymesplural of holorhyme: An extreme form of rhyme in which two lines are phonetically identical (as in "For I scream / for ice-cream").