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Words that rhyme with happy

HAPPY — said HAP-ee (HH AE1 P IY0), 2 syllables

11 perfect rhymes in the CMU dictionary, 4 of them everyday words — plus 92 sound-family and 1,000 assonance near rhymes.

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

Perfect rhymes 11

Identical from the stressed vowel to the end: AE P IY.

2 syllables

3 syllables

Rarer words and names (7)

2 syllables

Near rhymes: sound family 92

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

2 syllables

Rarer words and names (67)

2 syllables

3 syllables

4 syllables

Near rhymes: assonance 1,000

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

2 syllables

3 syllables

4 syllables

107 more everyday words

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4 syllables

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Rarer words and names (833)

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6 syllables

Rhyming “happy”

happy is HH AE1 P IY0 in the dictionary: 2 syllables, rhyming on AE P IY. Any word that ends in exactly those sounds is a perfect rhyme, however it is spelled.

Of its 11 perfect rhymes, 4 are everyday words: unhappy, snappy, crappy and scrappy. The other 7 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: abbey, baggy, caddie, chatty, crabby and craggy. 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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