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Words that rhyme with blood

BLOOD — said BLUD (B L AH1 D), 1 syllable

26 perfect rhymes in the CMU dictionary, 9 of them everyday words — plus 176 sound-family and 1,209 assonance near rhymes.

No multi-syllable rhymes: “blood” has only one stressed syllable, so there is no earlier stressed syllable to match.

Perfect rhymes 26

Identical from the stressed vowel to the end: AH D.

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Rarer words and names (17)

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Near rhymes: sound family 176

Same vowels, consonants swapped within a family (stops, fricatives, nasals…).

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17 more everyday words

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Rarer words and names (99)

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Near rhymes: assonance 1,209

Same vowels (AH) from the stress on, any consonants.

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606 more everyday words

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Rarer words and names (543)

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Rhyming “blood”

blood is B L AH1 D in the dictionary: 1 syllable, rhyming on AH D. Any word that ends in exactly those sounds is a perfect rhyme, however it is spelled.

Of its 26 perfect rhymes, 9 are everyday words: flood, mud, bud, dud, spud, stud, thud, crud and scud. The other 17 are rarer words or names, folded under “rarer words and names”.

The closest everyday near rhymes keep the vowel and swap a consonant for one of its sound family: buck, bug, but, chuck, club and cup. The vowel stays and each consonant after it changes only to a close relative, so these are the nearest-sounding slant rhymes.

Tap any word to see its own rhymes. The rules for each kind of rhyme are on the front page, and so are the limits: the dictionary is General American, so accents can rhyme differently.

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