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Words that rhyme with time

TIME — said TYM (T AY1 M), 1 syllable

29 perfect rhymes in the CMU dictionary, 14 of them everyday words — plus 112 sound-family and 1,440 assonance near rhymes.

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

Perfect rhymes 29

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

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Rarer words and names (15)

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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 (64)

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Near rhymes: assonance 1,440

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

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704 more everyday words

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Rarer words and names (676)

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Rhyming “time”

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

Of its 29 perfect rhymes, 14 are everyday words: climb, crime, prime, rhyme, chime, dime, grime, lime, mime, slime, sublime, thyme, onetime and rime. The other 15 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: dine, fine, line, mine, nine and shine. 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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