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Words that rhyme with girl

GIRL — said GURL (G ER1 L), 1 syllable

31 perfect rhymes in the CMU dictionary, 9 of them everyday words — plus 0 sound-family and 942 assonance near rhymes.

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

Perfect rhymes 31

Identical from the stressed vowel to the end: ER L.

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Rarer words and names (22)

1 syllable

Near rhymes: sound family 0

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

None in the dictionary.

Near rhymes: assonance 942

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

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2 syllables

410 more everyday words

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Rarer words and names (472)

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Rhyming “girl”

girl is G ER1 L in the dictionary: 1 syllable, rhyming on ER L. Any word that ends in exactly those sounds is a perfect rhyme, however it is spelled.

Of its 31 perfect rhymes, 9 are everyday words: curl, earl, hurl, pearl, swirl, twirl, unfurl, whirl and whorl. The other 22 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: are, bird, bird's, birds, birth and blurb.

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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