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Words that rhyme with bulb

Syllables

Syllables are counted as vowel sounds in the word’s CMU Pronouncing Dictionary entry, so fire (F AY1 ER0) counts as 2. That is the dictionary’s view, not a rule of English: it also lists fire as F AY1 R, one syllable, the way many singers say it.

BULB — said BULB (B AH1 L B), 1 syllable

0 perfect rhymes in the CMU dictionary, 0 of them everyday words — plus 27 sound-family and 1,384 assonance near rhymes.

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

Perfect rhymes 0

Identical from the stressed vowel to the end: AH L B.

None in the dictionary.

Near rhymes: sound family 27

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

1 syllable

2 syllables

Rarer words and names (9)

1 syllable

Near rhymes: assonance 1,384

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

1 syllable

2 syllables

3 syllables

674 more everyday words

1 syllable

2 syllables

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Rarer words and names (650)

1 syllable

2 syllables

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Rhyming “bulb”

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

None of its 0 perfect rhymes is an everyday word, so a lyric that ends on “bulb” almost always needs a near rhyme.

The closest everyday near rhymes keep the vowel and swap a consonant for one of its sound family: bulk, cult, pulp, culled, dulled and gulp. 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.

More rhyme pages

45 rhyme pages: 35 song words, then 10 more from the rest of Ogden’s Basic English list, each set ranked from fewest everyday perfect rhymes — how the list was made.