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Words that rhyme with sun

SUN — said SUN (S AH1 N), 1 syllable

70 perfect rhymes in the CMU dictionary, 27 of them everyday words — plus 112 sound-family and 1,228 assonance near rhymes.

Same sound, different spelling: son

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

Perfect rhymes 70

Identical from the stressed vowel to the end: AH N.

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Rarer words and names (43)

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Near rhymes: sound family 112

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

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Rarer words and names (65)

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Near rhymes: assonance 1,228

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

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617 more everyday words

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Rarer words and names (551)

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Rhyming “sun”

sun is S AH1 N in the dictionary: 1 syllable, rhyming on AH N. Any word that ends in exactly those sounds is a perfect rhyme, however it is spelled.

Of its 70 perfect rhymes, 27 are everyday words: an, been, begun, can, done, fun, gun, none, nun, one, pun, run, stun, than, ton, undone, won, bun, outdone, outrun, overdone, redone, shun, spun, tonne, dun and rerun. 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: come, drum, dumb, from, gum and hum. 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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