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Words that rhyme with canvas

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.

CANVAS — said KAN-vuhs (K AE1 N V AH0 S), 2 syllables

0 perfect rhymes in the CMU dictionary, 0 of them everyday words — plus 16 sound-family and 2,946 assonance near rhymes.

Same sound, different spelling: canvass

No multi-syllable rhymes: “canvas” 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: AE N V AH S.

None in the dictionary.

Near rhymes: sound family 16

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

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Rarer words and names (9)

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Near rhymes: assonance 2,946

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

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778 more everyday words

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Rarer words and names (2,108)

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Rhyming “canvas”

canvas is K AE1 N V AH0 S in the dictionary: 2 syllables, rhyming on AE N V AH S. 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 “canvas” almost always needs a near rhyme.

The closest everyday near rhymes keep the vowel and swap a consonant for one of its sound family: anxious, chances, dances, stanzas, advance's and advances. 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.