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Words that rhyme with love

LOVE — said LUV (L AH1 V), 1 syllable

13 perfect rhymes in the CMU dictionary, 6 of them everyday words — plus 122 sound-family and 1,276 assonance near rhymes.

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

Perfect rhymes 13

Identical from the stressed vowel to the end: AH V.

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Rarer words and names (7)

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Near rhymes: sound family 122

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

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Rarer words and names (69)

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Near rhymes: assonance 1,276

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

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633 more everyday words

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Rarer words and names (583)

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Rhyming “love”

love is L AH1 V in the dictionary: 1 syllable, rhyming on AH V. Any word that ends in exactly those sounds is a perfect rhyme, however it is spelled.

Of its 13 perfect rhymes, 6 are everyday words: above, glove, of, shove, thereof and dove. 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: brush, bus, crush, does, duff and flush. 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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