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Words that rhyme with kiss

KISS — said KIS (K IH1 S), 1 syllable

52 perfect rhymes in the CMU dictionary, 13 of them everyday words — plus 109 sound-family and 2,169 assonance near rhymes.

Same sound, different spelling: kis

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

Perfect rhymes 52

Identical from the stressed vowel to the end: IH S.

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Rarer words and names (39)

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Near rhymes: sound family 109

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

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Rarer words and names (70)

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Near rhymes: assonance 2,169

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

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993 more everyday words

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Rarer words and names (1,116)

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Rhyming “kiss”

kiss is K IH1 S in the dictionary: 1 syllable, rhyming on IH S. Any word that ends in exactly those sounds is a perfect rhyme, however it is spelled.

Of its 52 perfect rhymes, 13 are everyday words: bliss, dismiss, miss, this, abyss, amiss, hiss, reminisce, remiss, resists, dis, piss and sis. The other 39 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: cliff, dish, does, fifth, fish and give. 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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