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Words that rhyme with hope

HOPE — said HOHP (HH OW1 P), 1 syllable

26 perfect rhymes in the CMU dictionary, 11 of them everyday words — plus 223 sound-family and 1,565 assonance near rhymes.

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

Perfect rhymes 26

Identical from the stressed vowel to the end: OW P.

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Rarer words and names (15)

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Near rhymes: sound family 223

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

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47 more everyday words

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Rarer words and names (116)

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Near rhymes: assonance 1,565

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

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543 more everyday words

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Rarer words and names (962)

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Rhyming “hope”

hope is HH OW1 P in the dictionary: 1 syllable, rhyming on OW P. Any word that ends in exactly those sounds is a perfect rhyme, however it is spelled.

Of its 26 perfect rhymes, 11 are everyday words: cope, pope, rope, scope, slope, soap, dope, elope, lope, mope and nope. The other 15 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: boat, broke, coat, code, coke and float. 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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