Find perfect rhymes for one word using pronunciation-based matching instead of spelling alone. Useful when you need a fast rhyme check but still want honest fallback when a pronunciation is missing or a true rhyme does not exist.
Enter one plain word and the finder will look for perfect rhymes using dictionary pronunciation from the last stressed vowel onward. The first release accepts letters only, with lengths from 2 to 15.
Start with one anchor word you want to rhyme. The finder checks dictionary pronunciation first, then returns perfect-rhyme matches from Xfire's broader english-general corpus.
time
A straightforward common word with a dense perfect-rhyme set.
light
Shows how same-length rhymes are surfaced first before longer or shorter options.
orange
Useful for seeing the honest no-perfect-rhyme state instead of a fake spelling-based guess.
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Use these routes when you want a broader browse by length or spelling pattern, or when the pronunciation source does not give you enough to work from.
This tool is meant for fast, honest rhyme lookup on one word at a time. When the pronunciation source is missing or the rhyme set is empty, the fallback links below are there to keep the search moving instead of pretending certainty.
Dictionary-confirmed results match pronunciation data, not spelling alone. When a dictionary pronunciation is missing or has no matches, the page can also show clearly labeled spelling-based near-rhyme ideas so approximate results are not presented as perfect rhymes.
The rhyme index is built from pinned pronunciation sources filtered to Xfire's broader english-general corpus. If those sources do not include a pronunciation for that word, the page labels any spelling-ending ideas as approximate instead of inventing confirmed phonetic matches.
Pronunciation varies across accents and dictionaries. This tool uses pinned sources for consistency, so it is best treated as a practical baseline rather than the final word on every dialect variation.
Find perfect rhymes for one word using pronunciation-based matching instead of spelling alone. Useful when you need a fast rhyme check but still want honest fallback when a pronunciation is missing or a true rhyme does not exist.
Enter one plain word and the finder will look for perfect rhymes using dictionary pronunciation from the last stressed vowel onward. The first release accepts letters only, with lengths from 2 to 15.
Checked word
LIGHT
The finder treats this exact spelling as the pronunciation lookup key.
Pronunciations
1
All listed pronunciations are combined so alternate dictionary readings do not get silently dropped.
Perfect rhymes
109
21 of those rhymes have the same letter count as the source word.
The finder currently has 1 pronunciation entry for LIGHT: 1 dictionary-confirmed and 0 generated. Rhymes are matched from the last stressed vowel onward, which is why spelling-only lookalikes can still be excluded.
If your accent says the word differently, treat these as a practical starting set rather than a universal final answer.
These matches come from CMUdict pronunciations. Same-length rhymes appear first, then the closest word lengths, then A to Z.
| Word | Length | Score | Vowels | Unique | Y |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Use these routes when you want a broader browse by length or spelling pattern, or when the pronunciation source does not give you enough to work from.
This tool is meant for fast, honest rhyme lookup on one word at a time. When the pronunciation source is missing or the rhyme set is empty, the fallback links below are there to keep the search moving instead of pretending certainty.
Dictionary-confirmed results match pronunciation data, not spelling alone. When a dictionary pronunciation is missing or has no matches, the page can also show clearly labeled spelling-based near-rhyme ideas so approximate results are not presented as perfect rhymes.
The rhyme index is built from pinned pronunciation sources filtered to Xfire's broader english-general corpus. If those sources do not include a pronunciation for that word, the page labels any spelling-ending ideas as approximate instead of inventing confirmed phonetic matches.
Pronunciation varies across accents and dictionaries. This tool uses pinned sources for consistency, so it is best treated as a practical baseline rather than the final word on every dialect variation.
| bight |
| 5 |
| 11 |
| 1 |
| 5 |
| No |
| fight | 5 | 12 | 1 | 5 | No |
| hight | 5 | 12 | 1 | 4 | No |
| might | 5 | 11 | 1 | 5 | No |
| night | 5 | 9 | 1 | 5 | No |
| quite | 5 | 14 | 3 | 5 | No |
| right | 5 | 9 | 1 | 5 | No |
| sight | 5 | 9 | 1 | 5 | No |
| spite | 5 | 7 | 2 | 5 | No |
| tight | 5 | 9 | 1 | 4 | No |
| trite | 5 | 5 | 2 | 4 | No |
| twite | 5 | 8 | 2 | 4 | No |
| white | 5 | 11 | 2 | 5 | No |
| wight | 5 | 12 | 1 | 5 | No |
| write | 5 | 8 | 2 | 5 | No |
| alight | 6 | 10 | 2 | 6 | No |
| bite | 4 | 6 | 2 | 4 | No |
| blight | 6 | 12 | 1 | 6 | No |
| bright | 6 | 12 | 1 | 6 | No |
| byte | 4 | 9 | 1 | 4 | Yes |
| cite | 4 | 6 | 2 | 4 | No |
| dunite | 6 | 7 | 3 | 6 | No |
| excite | 6 | 15 | 3 | 5 | No |
| flight | 6 | 13 | 1 | 6 | No |
| fright | 6 | 13 | 1 | 6 | No |
| height | 6 | 13 | 2 | 5 | No |
| ignite | 6 | 7 | 3 | 5 | No |
| incite | 6 | 8 | 3 | 5 | No |
| indict | 6 | 9 | 2 | 5 | No |
| indite | 6 | 7 | 3 | 5 | No |
| invite | 6 | 9 | 3 | 5 | No |
| kite | 4 | 8 | 2 | 4 | No |
| knight | 6 | 14 | 1 | 6 | No |
| kyte | 4 | 11 | 1 | 4 | Yes |
| lite | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | No |
| mite | 4 | 6 | 2 | 4 | No |
| nite | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | No |
| onsite | 6 | 6 | 3 | 6 | No |
| plight | 6 | 12 | 1 | 6 | No |
| polite | 6 | 8 | 3 | 6 | No |
| recite | 6 | 8 | 3 | 5 | No |
| rite | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | No |
| site | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | No |
| slight | 6 | 10 | 1 | 6 | No |
| sprite | 6 | 8 | 2 | 6 | No |
| wright | 6 | 13 | 1 | 6 | No |
| alright | 7 | 11 | 2 | 7 | No |
| delight | 7 | 12 | 2 | 7 | No |
| despite | 7 | 10 | 3 | 6 | No |
| reunite | 7 | 7 | 4 | 6 | No |
| rewrite | 7 | 10 | 3 | 5 | No |
| sleight | 7 | 11 | 2 | 7 | No |
| tonight | 7 | 11 | 2 | 6 | No |
| upright | 7 | 13 | 2 | 7 | No |
| uptight | 7 | 13 | 2 | 6 | No |
| contrite | 8 | 10 | 3 | 7 | No |
| impolite | 8 | 12 | 4 | 7 | No |
| nonwhite | 8 | 14 | 3 | 7 | No |
| outright | 8 | 12 | 3 | 7 | No |
| reignite | 8 | 9 | 4 | 6 | No |
| reinvite | 8 | 11 | 4 | 6 | No |
| terabyte | 8 | 13 | 3 | 6 | Yes |
| disinvite | 9 | 13 | 4 | 7 | No |
| overnight | 9 | 16 | 3 | 9 | No |
| overwrite | 9 | 15 | 4 | 7 | No |
| forthright | 10 | 20 | 2 | 7 | No |
| overexcite | 10 | 22 | 5 | 8 | No |
| electrolyte | 11 | 16 | 4 | 7 | Yes |
These matches come from generated ARPABET pronunciations for words missing from CMUdict. They are pronunciation-backed, but less authoritative than dictionary-confirmed matches.
| Word | Length | Score | Vowels | Unique | Y |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| dight | 5 | 10 | 1 | 5 | No |
| evite | 5 | 8 | 3 | 4 | No |
| flyte | 5 | 11 | 1 | 5 | Yes |
| phyte | 5 | 13 | 1 | 5 | Yes |
| shite | 5 | 8 | 2 | 5 | No |
| skite | 5 | 9 | 2 | 5 | No |
| aplite | 6 | 8 | 3 | 6 | No |
| aright | 6 | 10 | 2 | 6 | No |
| cyte | 4 | 9 | 1 | 4 | Yes |
| dite | 4 | 5 | 2 | 4 | No |
| endite | 6 | 7 | 3 | 5 | No |
| gite | 4 | 5 | 2 | 4 | No |
| illite | 6 | 6 | 3 | 4 | No |
| lyte | 4 | 7 | 1 | 4 | Yes |
| ophite | 6 | 11 | 3 | 6 | No |
| podite | 6 | 9 | 3 | 6 | No |
| qubyte | 6 | 20 | 2 | 6 | Yes |
| resite | 6 | 6 | 3 | 5 | No |
| wite | 4 | 7 | 2 | 4 | No |
| attrite | 7 | 7 | 3 | 5 | No |
| ite | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | No |
| miscite | 7 | 11 | 3 | 6 | No |
| refight | 7 | 14 | 2 | 7 | No |
| relight | 7 | 11 | 2 | 7 | No |
| requite | 7 | 16 | 4 | 6 | No |
| resight | 7 | 11 | 2 | 7 | No |
| spright | 7 | 13 | 1 | 7 | No |
| subsite | 7 | 9 | 3 | 6 | No |
| unakite | 7 | 11 | 4 | 7 | No |
| unsight | 7 | 11 | 2 | 7 | No |
| unwhite | 7 | 13 | 3 | 7 | No |
| miswrite | 8 | 13 | 3 | 7 | No |
| outsight | 8 | 12 | 3 | 7 | No |
| prefight | 8 | 17 | 2 | 8 | No |
| unbright | 8 | 14 | 2 | 8 | No |
| antiwhite | 9 | 15 | 4 | 7 | No |
| preflight | 9 | 18 | 2 | 9 | No |
| ignimbrite | 10 | 15 | 4 | 8 | No |
| lighttight | 10 | 18 | 2 | 5 | No |
| overbright | 10 | 19 | 3 | 9 | No |
| superpolite | 11 | 15 | 5 | 9 | No |
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