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Words that rhyme with smile

SMILE — said SMYL (S M AY1 L), 1 syllable

69 perfect rhymes in the CMU dictionary, 26 of them everyday words — plus 49 sound-family and 1,463 assonance near rhymes.

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

Perfect rhymes 69

Identical from the stressed vowel to the end: AY L.

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Near rhymes: sound family 49

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

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Near rhymes: assonance 1,463

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

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718 more everyday words

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Rhyming “smile”

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

Of its 69 perfect rhymes, 26 are everyday words: compile, dial, file, hostile, mile, pile, style, tile, trial, versatile, vile, while, worthwhile, aisle, awhile, beguile, bile, fertile, guile, isle, revile, rile, chamomile, refile, stile and wile. The other 43 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: dire, fire, hire, wire, ire and lyre. 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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