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Words that rhyme with death

DEATH — said DETH (D EH1 TH), 1 syllable

19 perfect rhymes in the CMU dictionary, 1 of them everyday words — plus 273 sound-family and 2,872 assonance near rhymes.

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

Perfect rhymes 19

Identical from the stressed vowel to the end: EH TH.

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Rarer words and names (18)

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Near rhymes: sound family 273

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

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15 more everyday words

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Rarer words and names (198)

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Near rhymes: assonance 2,872

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

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1,058 more everyday words

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Rarer words and names (1,754)

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Rhyming “death”

death is D EH1 TH in the dictionary: 1 syllable, rhyming on EH TH. Any word that ends in exactly those sounds is a perfect rhyme, however it is spelled.

Of its 19 perfect rhymes, 1 is an everyday word: breath. The other 18 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: as, bless, chess, deaf, dress and flesh. 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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