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Words that rhyme with music

MUSIC — said MYOO-zik (M Y UW1 Z IH0 K), 2 syllables

4 perfect rhymes in the CMU dictionary, 0 of them everyday words — plus 7 sound-family and 618 assonance near rhymes.

Same sound, different spelling: muzik

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

Perfect rhymes 4

Identical from the stressed vowel to the end: UW Z IH K.

No everyday words — see the rarer ones below.

Rarer words and names (4)

2 syllables

Near rhymes: sound family 7

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

No everyday words — see the rarer ones below.

Rarer words and names (7)

2 syllables

3 syllables

Near rhymes: assonance 618

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

2 syllables

3 syllables

4 syllables

266 more everyday words

2 syllables

3 syllables

4 syllables

5 syllables

Rarer words and names (292)

2 syllables

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4 syllables

5 syllables

6 syllables

Rhyming “music”

music is M Y UW1 Z IH0 K in the dictionary: 2 syllables, rhyming on UW Z IH K. Any word that ends in exactly those sounds is a perfect rhyme, however it is spelled.

None of its 4 perfect rhymes is an everyday word — they are rarer words or names, so a lyric that ends on “music” almost always needs a near rhyme.

No near rhyme swaps only a consonant of the same family, so the nearest everyday options are assonance — same vowels, other consonants: chewing, chooses, choosing, cooling, cruises and cruising.

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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