Words that rhyme with sad: 48 perfect rhymes, found by sound

SAD — said SAD (S AE1 D), 1 syllable

48 perfect rhymes in the CMU dictionary, 19 of them everyday words — plus 324 sound-family and 1,809 assonance near rhymes.

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

Perfect rhymes 48

Identical from the stressed vowel to the end: AE D.

1 syllable

Rarer words and names (29)

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Near rhymes: sound family 324

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

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51 more everyday words

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Rarer words and names (213)

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Near rhymes: assonance 1,809

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

1 syllable

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762 more everyday words

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Rarer words and names (987)

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Rhyming “sad”

sad is S AE1 D in the dictionary: 1 syllable, rhyming on AE D. Any word that ends in exactly those sounds is a perfect rhyme, however it is spelled.

Of its 48 perfect rhymes, 19 are everyday words: add, bad, glad, had, lad, mad, pad, ad, cad, clad, dad, fad, plaid, brad, gad, grad, scad, shad and tad. The other 29 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: at, back, bag, bat, black and cap. 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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