rhyme
/ɹaɪm/
"rhyme" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rhyme” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #13,800. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,800
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rhyming verse (poetic form)
Corpus desk
Index EN-rhyme · rhyme · English
rhyme · rank #13,800 · 8 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,800
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH reversal
Nearest frequency peer: reversal (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “rhyme”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- repetitive
repetitive
86,205 corpus weight
- Revelations
Revelations
86,203 corpus weight
- reversal
reversal
86,202 corpus weight
- rhyme
rhyme
86,201 corpus weight
- rue
rue
86,200 corpus weight
- savvy
savvy
86,197 corpus weight
What this shows “rhyme” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rhyme |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɹaɪm/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #13,800 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “rhyme”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around rhyme (IPA /ɹaɪm/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,800 among 3,094 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 9 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for rhyme, with forms such as "hryme", "rhhyme", and "rhmye". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "rye", "Rome", "Rhys", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English rim, rime, ryme (“identical letters or sounds in words from the vowel in their stressed syllables to their ends; measure, meter, rhythm; song, verse, etc., with rhyming lines”), from Anglo-Norman rime, ryme (“identical letters or sounds … The correct English form is rhyme, spelled R-H-Y-M-E.
Definition
- 1Rhyming verse (poetic form)
- 2A thought expressed in verse; a verse; a poem; a tale told in verse.
- 3A word that rhymes with another.
- 4A word that rhymes with another.
- 5Rhyming: sameness of letters or sounds of part of some words.
- 6The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset.
- 7An instance of rapping; a rapped verse; a line or couple lines of rapping; a hip hop song.
- 8A rapper's oeuvre, lyricism or skill.
- 9Number.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rhyme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Many editors say they don’t want stories written in rhyme these days.
Libels are caſt againſt thee in the ſtreete, / Ballads and rimes made of thy ouerthrovv.
Etymology
From Middle English rim, rime, ryme (“identical letters or sounds in words from the vowel in their stressed syllables to their ends; measure, meter, rhythm; song, verse, etc., with rhyming lines”), from Anglo-Norman rime, ryme (“identical letters or sounds in words from the vowel in their stressed syllables to their ends; song, verse, etc., with rhyming lines”) (modern French rime); further etymology uncertain, possibly either: * from Latin rhythmus (“rhythm”), from Ancient Greek ῥῠθμός (rhŭthmós, “measured motion, rhythm; regular, repeating motion, vibration”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow; a stream”); or * borrowed from Frankish *rīm (“number, order, sequence, series, row of identical things”) (whence Old English rīm (“number, enumeration, series”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂rey- (“to arrange; to count”) and *h₂er- (“to fit, put together; to fix; to slot”). Cognates * Ancient Greek ἀριθμός (arithmós, “number”) * Dutch rijm (“rhyme”) * Middle Low German rīm (“rhyme”) * Old Frisian rīm (“number, amount, tale”) * Old High German rīm (“series, row, number”) (modern German Reim (“rhyme”)) * Old Irish rīm (“number”) * Old Norse rím (“calculation, calendar”) (Icelandic rím (“rhyme”), Norwegian rim (“rhyme”), Swedish rim (“rhyme”)) * Welsh rhif (“number”)
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hryme
- rhhyme
- rhmye
- rhyem
- rhymme
- rhyyme
- rrhyme
- ryhme
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rhyme - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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