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Words that rhyme with boy

BOY — said BOY (B OY1), 1 syllable

74 perfect rhymes in the CMU dictionary, 15 of them everyday words — plus 0 sound-family and 283 assonance near rhymes.

Same sound, different spelling: boye

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

Perfect rhymes 74

Identical from the stressed vowel to the end: OY.

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Rarer words and names (59)

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Near rhymes: sound family 0

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

None in the dictionary.

Near rhymes: assonance 283

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

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57 more everyday words

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Rarer words and names (166)

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Rhyming “boy”

boy is B OY1 in the dictionary: 1 syllable, rhyming on OY. Any word that ends in exactly those sounds is a perfect rhyme, however it is spelled.

Of its 74 perfect rhymes, 15 are everyday words: annoy, destroy, employ, enjoy, joy, ploy, toy, ahoy, coy, decoy, cloy, deploy, redeploy, soy and troy. The other 59 are rarer words or names, folded under “rarer words and names”.

No near rhyme swaps only a consonant of the same family, so the nearest everyday options are assonance — same vowels, other consonants: boil, boiled, boils, boy's, boys and choice.

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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