Basic English Rhyme Groups
Key : + means there are rhymes , - means no rhymes , ~ means assonant or
approximate rhymes , ( ) mean words not on the 850 list but offshoots
such as plurals, suffix, and conjugated verbs.
This is a work in progress, and I'm not an expert in Basic English.
You can add compounds, possessives, and international words. - Ed.
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+ a, day, gray, may, play, ray, say, tray, way, yesterday
+ able, table
+ about, doubt, out
+ account, amount
- acid
+ across, loss
+ act, fact
+ addition, competition, position
~ adjustment, agreement, amusement
~ advertisement, development
- after
+ again, men, pen, then, when
- against
~ agreement, adjustment, amusement
+ air, care, hair, square, there, where
+ all, ball, fall, small, tall, wall
- almost
+ among, tongue, young
+ amount, account
~ amusement, adjustment, agreement
+ and, band, hand, land, sand
- angle
- angry
- animal
- answer
+ ant, plant
- any
~ apparatus, purpose
- apple
- approval
- arch
+ argument, punishment
+ arm, farm
- army
+ art, cart, heart, part, start
+ as, (has)
+ at, cat, fat, flat, hat, rat, that
+ attack, back, black, crack
- attempt
+ attention, invention
+ attraction, reaction
~ authority, property
~ automatic, public
+ awake, brake, cake, make, shake, snake, take
- baby
+ bad, (had), sad
+ bag, flag
- balance
+ base, face, place, space
- basin
- basket
- bath
+ be, bee, degree, free, he, key, knee, (me), sea, see, (she), ~tendency, the?,
tree, (we)
- beautiful
+ because, (laws)
+ bed, bread, dead, head, lead, red, (said), thread
+ before, door, drawer, floor, for, or, store, war
- behavior
+ belief, chief, leaf
+ bell, parallel, smell, well
+ bent, event, (sent)
+ berry, very
+ between, (been), (seen)
+ bird, word
+ birth, earth
~ bit, opposite, unit
+ bite, bright, fight, flight, light, night, quite, right, tight, white
- bitter
+ blade, (made), shade, spade, trade
- blood
+ blow, go, low, no, ~potato, slow, snow, so, though, toe, ~tomorrow, ~window,
~yellow
+ blue, do, new, screw, shoe, through, to, true, ~value, view, who, you
+ board, cord, reward
+ boat, note, throat
- body
+ boiling, (oiling)
+ bone, (flown), stone
+ book, cook, hook, look, (took)
+ boot, fruit, root
- bottle
+ box, (clocks), (locks), (shocks), (socks)
- boy
+ brain, chain, drain, grain, pain, plane, rain, train
- branch
+ brass, glass, mass
+ breath, death
+ brick, kick, quick, stick, thick, trick
- bridge
- broken
+ brother, mother, other
+ brown, down, town
+ brush, crush
- bucket
- building
- bulb
+ burn, turn
+ burst, first
- business
+ but, cut, nut, shut
- butter
- button
+ by, cry, dry, eye, fly, high, I, sky, why
- camera
- canvas
+ card, hard
- carriage
+ cause, (laws)
+ certain, curtain
+ chalk, talk, walk
- chance
+ change, exchange, range, strange
+ cheap, deep, keep, sheep, sleep
+ cheese, (bees), (degrees), disease, (he's), (knees), please, (seas), (sees),
(she's), sneeze, (trees)
~ chemical, physical
+ chest, protest, request, rest, test, west
+ chin, in, pin, skin, thin, tin
- church
- circle
+ clean, (seen)
+ clear, dear, ear, fear, here, near, year
+ clock, lock, shock, sock
- cloth
+ cloud, loud
+ coal, control, hole, roll
+ coat, goat
+ cold, fold, gold, old
- collar
- color
- comb
+ come, from, some, thumb
- comfort
- committee
- common
- company
- comparison
+ complete, (feet), heat, meat, receipt, seat, street, sweet
+ complex, sex
- condition
+ connection, direction, selection
- conscious
+ copper, (stopper?), (topper?)
- copy
- cord
+ cork, fork
+ cotton, (gotten)
+ cough, off
- country
- cover
+ cow, how, now, plow
- credit
+ crime, time
+ cruel, rule, school
+ cup, up
~ current, servant
+ curve, nerve
- cushion
- damage
+ danger, (changer), (ranger), (stranger)
+ dark, mark
+ daughter, water
+ debt, get, let, net, regret, wet
+ decision, division
- delicate
- dependent
+ design, line, mine, sign, wine
+ desire, fire, wire
- destruction
+ detail, female, male, nail, rail, sail, scale, tail
+ development, (sent), (went)
- different
+ digestion, question, suggestion
- dirty
- discovery
- discussion
+ disgust, dust
+ distance, existence, ~substance
- distribution
- dog
+ dress, process, yes
+ drink, ink
- driving
+ drop, stop, top
- early
- east
- edge
+ education, nation, observation, operation, organization, relation, station
+ effect, respect
+ egg, leg
- elastic
- electric
+ end, friend, send
- engine
+ enough, rough
- equal
- error
- even
- ever
- every
- expansion
- experience
- expert
- false
- family
+ far, (are), star
- father
+ feather, leather, together, weather
- feeble
- feeling
- fertile
- fiction
- field
- finger
- fish
+ fixed, mixed
+ flame, same, shame
+ flower, hour, power
- food
- foolish
+ foot, put
+ force, horse
+ form, warm
- forward
- fowl
+ frame, name
~ frequent, violent
- front
+ full, pull, wool
- future
- garden
- general
- girl
+ give, representative
+ glove, love
+ good, wood
~ government, instrument, ornament, punishment
- grass
+ great, hate, late, plate, rate, straight, weight
+ green, (been), machine, (seen)
+ grip, lip, ship, slip, whip
+ group, soup
- growth
+ guide, side, wide
+ gun, run, son, sun
- hammer
- hanging
- happy
- harbor
- harmony
- have
- healthy
- hearing
- help
~ history, theory
- hollow
+ hope, slope, soap
- horn
- hospital
- house
- humor
+ ice, price, rice
- idea
+ if, stiff
+ ill, still, till, will
- important
- impulse
+ increase, peace
- industry
- insect
- insurance
- interest
- iron
- island
- jelly
- jewel
- join
- journey
- judge
+ jump, pump
+ kettle, metal
+ kind, mind
+ kiss, this
- knife
+ knot, (got), not, pot
- knowledge
- language
+ last, past
- laugh
+ law, (saw)
+ learning, (burning), (turning)
- left
+ letter, (wetter)
- level
+ library, military, necessary
- lift
- like
- limit
- linen
- liquid
+ list, (kissed), mist, twist
- little
+ living, (giving)
+ long, song, strong, wrong
+ loose, produce, use
+ love, of
+ man, (an), than
- manager
- map
- market
- married
- match
- material
+ meal, steel, wheel
+ measure, pleasure
- medical
- meeting
- memory
- middle
+ milk, silk
- minute
- money
- monkey
- month
+ moon, spoon
- morning
- motion
- mountain
+ mouth, south
- move
+ much, such, touch
- muscle
- music
- narrow
- nature
- neck
- need
- needle
+ news, (blues), (whose)
+ noise, (boys)
- normal
- north
+ nose, (goes), prose
- number
- offer
- office
- oil
- on
- only
- open
- opinion
- orange
- order
- oven
- over
- owner
+ page, stage
- paint
- paper
- parcel
+ paste, taste, waste
~ payment, statement
- pencil
- person
~ picture, structure
- pig
- pipe
- pocket
- point
- poison
- polish
- political
- poor
+ porter, (sorter?)
~ possible, probable, responsible
+ powder, louder
- present
- print
~ prison, rhythm
- private
- profit
- push
- quality
- quiet
- reading
- ready
- reason
- record
- regular
- religion
+ ring, spring, thing, wing
- river
- road
- rod
- roof
- room
+ round, sound
- rub
- safe
- salt
- science
- scissors
- second
- secret
- secretary
+ need, seed
+ seem, steam
+ self, shelf
- sense
- separate
- serious
- sharp
+ shirt, skirt
+ short, sort, support, transport
- silver
- simple
+ sister, (mister)
+ size, (cries), (eyes), (flies), (skies), surprise, wise
- smash
+ smile, while
- smoke
- smooth
- society
- soft
- solid
- special
- sponge
- stamp
- stem
- step
- sticky
- stitch
- stocking
- stomach
- story
- stretch
- structure
- sudden
- sugar
- summer
+ swim, (him)
- system
+ tax, (attacks), (cracks), wax
- thought
+ thunder, under
- ticket
+ tired, (desired), (fired), (wired)
- tooth
- trouble
- trousers
- umbrella
- verse
- vessel
- voice
+ waiting, (hating?), (rating?)
- wash
- watch
+ wave, (gave)
- week
- whistle
- wind
- winter
- with
- woman
- work
- worm
- wound
+ writing, (biting?), (fighting?), (lighting?)
The suffixes extend the rhyme, virtually all -ed, -er, -ing, -ly, also there
are a lot of words that end in 'en, on' for at least the assonant level. - Ed.
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