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Words that rhyme with star

STAR — said STAR (S T AA1 R), 1 syllable

212 perfect rhymes in the CMU dictionary, 24 of them everyday words — plus 108 sound-family and 2,250 assonance near rhymes.

Same sound, different spelling: starr, staar

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

Perfect rhymes 212

Identical from the stressed vowel to the end: AA R.

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Near rhymes: sound family 108

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

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Near rhymes: assonance 2,250

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

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698 more everyday words

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Rarer words and names (1,492)

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Rhyming “star”

star is S T AA1 R in the dictionary: 1 syllable, rhyming on AA R. Any word that ends in exactly those sounds is a perfect rhyme, however it is spelled.

Of its 212 perfect rhymes, 24 are everyday words: are, bar, bizarre, car, char, far, guitar, our, par, afar, ajar, bazaar, cigar, czar, jar, mar, scar, spar, superstar, tar, abattoir, disbar, r and sitar. The other 188 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: fall, doll, loll, pall, moll and sol. 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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