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Words that rhyme with sky

Syllables

Syllables are counted as vowel sounds in the word’s CMU Pronouncing Dictionary entry, so fire (F AY1 ER0) counts as 2. That is the dictionary’s view, not a rule of English: it also lists fire as F AY1 R, one syllable, the way many singers say it.

SKY — said SKY (S K AY1), 1 syllable

193 perfect rhymes in the CMU dictionary, 66 of them everyday words — plus 0 sound-family and 1,387 assonance near rhymes.

Same sound, different spelling: skye

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

Perfect rhymes 193

Identical from the stressed vowel to the end: AY.

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Near rhymes: sound family 0

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

None in the dictionary.

Near rhymes: assonance 1,387

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

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700 more everyday words

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Rhyming “sky”

sky is S K AY1 in the dictionary: 1 syllable, rhyming on AY. Any word that ends in exactly those sounds is a perfect rhyme, however it is spelled.

Of its 193 perfect rhymes, 66 are everyday words: ally, apply, buy, by, bye, comply, cry, defy, deny, die, dry, eye, fly, fry, goodbye, guy, hereby, high, imply, lie, my, nearby, pi, pie, rely, reply, shy, sigh, spy, supply, thereby, thy, tie, try, underlie, whereby, why, awry, aye, belie, chi, decry, dye, hi, lye, nigh, ply, pry, retry, rye, sly, spry, standby, thigh, untie, vie, wry, bonsai, descry, i, misapply, oversupply, resupply, shanghai, sty and y. The other 127 are rarer words or names, folded under “rarer words and names”.

No near rhyme swaps only a consonant of the same family, so the nearest everyday options are assonance — same vowels, other consonants: bind, binds, bite, bites, blind and bright.

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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35 song words, ranked from fewest everyday perfect rhymes — how the list was made.