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Words that rhyme with complex

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.

COMPLEX — said KAHM-pleks (K AA1 M P L EH0 K S), 2 syllables

0 perfect rhymes in the CMU dictionary, 0 of them everyday words — plus 1 sound-family and 354 assonance near rhymes.

No multi-syllable rhymes: “complex” 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: AA M P L EH K S.

None in the dictionary.

Near rhymes: sound family 1

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

No everyday words — see the rarer ones below.

Rarer words and names (1)

2 syllables

Near rhymes: assonance 354

Same vowels (AA-EH) from the stress on, any consonants.

2 syllables

Rarer words and names (299)

2 syllables

3 syllables

4 syllables

Rhyming “complex”

complex is K AA1 M P L EH0 K S in the dictionary: 2 syllables, rhyming on AA M P L EH K 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 “complex” almost always needs a near rhyme.

No near rhyme swaps only a consonant of the same family, so the nearest everyday options are assonance — same vowels, other consonants: comment, comments, compress, concept, concepts and content.

The dictionary also says it kuhm-PLEKS; this page rhymes the first. Type the word in the box to pick another.

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.