rhyme
/ɹaɪm/noun, verb
rhyme is spelled R-H-Y-M-E. The wrong spelling people search most is rhymme: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 278 of all searches for the word. Rhyme is a noun meaning “Rhyming verse (poetic form)”. The plural of rhyme is rhymes.
How many letters and syllables are in rhyme?
| Letters | 5: R-H-Y-M-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.6 times per million words; the 13,695th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, rhymme, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like | |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell rhyme?
Rhyme is spelled R-H-Y-M-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 278 of the searches for rhyme in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is rhyme?
Rhyme appears 3.6 times per million words in written English, the 13,695th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce rhyme?
- US /ɹaɪm/
- Australia /ɹɑem/
- [ɹɑe̯m]
Rhyme has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-rhyme.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with rhyme
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: rime (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Also written: rime.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with rhyme?
7 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as rhyme from its last stressed vowel (/aɪm/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of rhyme
- rhymes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- rhyming participle, present
- rhymed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does rhyme mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Rhyming verse (poetic form).
Many editors say they don’t want stories written in rhyme these days.
- 2
A thought expressed in verse; a verse; a poem; a tale told in verse.
Tennyson’s rhymes
- 3
A word that rhymes with another.
Norse poetry is littered with rhymes like “sól … sunnan”.
- 4
A word that rhymes with another, in that it is pronounced identically with the other word from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.
"Awake" is a rhyme for "lake".
- 5
Rhyming: sameness of letters or sounds of part of some words.
The poem exhibits a peculiar form of rhyme.
- 6
The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset.
- 7
informalAn instance of rapping; a rapped verse; a line or couple lines of rapping; a hip hop song.
I heard Drake's new rhyme last night.
- 8
informalA rapper's oeuvre, lyricism or skill.
His rhymes are all weak.
verb
- 1
To compose or treat in verse; versify.
- 2
To place (a word or words) in such a way as to produce a rhyme or an approximation thereof.
- 3
Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.
Creation rhymes with integration and station.
- 4
To be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each.
Mug and rug rhyme.
- 5
To contain words that are pronounced identically to each other from the vowel in the stressed syllable to the end.
I rewrote the story to make it rhyme.
- 6
To somewhat resemble or correspond with.
- 7
obsoleteTo number; count; reckon.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Rhyme in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | strophe, vers , rime , faire rimer , rimer |
| German | Reim , reimen , sich reimen (mit) , Silbenreim , sich reimen |
| Portuguese | poesia , rima , rimar |
| Spanish | rima , rimar |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.