# rhyme

> English word · Noun · IPA /ɹaɪm/ · frequency rank #13,800

## Definitions
1. Rhyming verse (poetic form)
2. A thought expressed in verse; a verse; a poem; a tale told in verse.
3. A word that rhymes with another.
4. A word that rhymes with another.
5. Rhyming: sameness of letters or sounds of part of some words.
6. The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset.
7. An instance of rapping; a rapped verse; a line or couple lines of rapping; a hip hop song.
8. A rapper's oeuvre, lyricism or skill.
9. Number.

## 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”)

## Easily confused with
- **rye** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rhyme-vs-rye)
- **Rome** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rhyme-vs-rome)
- **Rhys** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rhyme-vs-rhys)
- **Ryde** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rhyme-vs-ryde)
- **Royce** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rhyme-vs-royce)
- **Rhee** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rhee-vs-rhyme)
- **Rhode** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rhode-vs-rhyme)
- **Rhine** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rhine-vs-rhyme)
- **Rhone** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rhone-vs-rhyme)

## Common misspellings (8)
`hryme`, `rhhyme`, `rhmye`, `rhyem`, `rhymme`, `rhyyme`, `rrhyme`, `ryhme`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-09-03.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/rhyme