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Words that rhyme with heart

HEART — said HART (HH AA1 R T), 1 syllable

33 perfect rhymes in the CMU dictionary, 14 of them everyday words — plus 187 sound-family and 2,348 assonance near rhymes.

Same sound, different spelling: hart, hardt, harte, hartt

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

Perfect rhymes 33

Identical from the stressed vowel to the end: AA R T.

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Rarer words and names (19)

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Near rhymes: sound family 187

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

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Rarer words and names (140)

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Near rhymes: assonance 2,348

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

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670 more everyday words

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Rarer words and names (1,618)

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Rhyming “heart”

heart is HH AA1 R T in the dictionary: 1 syllable, rhyming on AA R T. Any word that ends in exactly those sounds is a perfect rhyme, however it is spelled.

Of its 33 perfect rhymes, 14 are everyday words: apart, art, chart, part, restart, smart, start, cart, dart, depart, impart, mart, tart and fart. The other 19 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: arc, bark, barred, card, dark and guard. 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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