A commonplace example of this is the word of / ɒ v/, which when stressed had no rhymes in British Received Pronunciation prior to the 19th century, but which rhymed with grave and mauve in some varieties of General American. Words that rhyme in one accent or dialect may not rhyme in another. And since in most traditions the stressed syllable should not be identical-the consonant before the stressed vowel should be different-adding a prefix to a word, as be-elbow for elbow, does not create a perfect rhyme for it. However, no other English word has exactly these three final syllables with this stress pattern. Ovulate, copulate, and populate, for example, vary only slightly in one consonant from discombobulate, and thus provide very usable rhymes for most situations in which a rhyme for discombobulate is desired. There are many words that match most of the sounds from the stressed vowel onwards and so are near rhymes, called slant rhymes.
For instance, a perfect rhyme for discom BOBulate would have to rhyme three syllables, - OBulate. Therefore, words with the stress far from the end are more likely to have no perfect rhymes. Only the list of one-syllable words can hope to be anything near complete for polysyllabic words, rhymes are the exception rather than the rule.įollowing the strict definition of rhyme, a perfect rhyme demands the exact match of all sounds from the last stressed vowel to the end of the word. Multiple-word rhymes (a phrase that rhymes with a word, known as a phrasal or mosaic rhyme), self-rhymes (adding a prefix to a word and counting it as a rhyme of itself), and identical rhymes (words that are identical in their stressed syllables, such as bay and obey) are often not counted as true rhymes and have not been considered. The list was compiled from the point of view of Received Pronunciation (with a few exceptions for General American), and may not work for other accents or dialects. The word "rhyme" here is used in the strict sense, called a perfect rhyme, that the words are pronounced the same from the vowel of the main stressed syllable onwards.
Words that rhyme with genie and meanie full#
full rhyme rhyme in which the stressed vowels and all following consonants and vowels are identical, but the consonants preceding the rhyming vowels are different, as in chain, brain soul, pole.rime riche rhyme created by the use of two different words, or groups of words, of which both the stressed syllables and any following syllables are identical, as in lighted, delighted.feminine rhyme a rhyme either of two syllables of which the second is unstressed (double rhyme) as in motion, notion, or of three syllables of which the second and third are unstressed (triple rhyme) as in fortunate, importunate.
slant rhyme rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light years, yours.