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Words That Rhyme With Best

90 words rhyme with best, from 1 to 3 syllables: blessed, breast, chest, crest, dressed and more, the everyday words first. Then 4 near rhymes, like fleshed, meshed, refreshed, enmeshed.

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1 syllable27 words

  • blessed
  • breast
  • chest
  • crest
  • dressed
  • guessed
  • guest
  • jest
  • lest
  • messed
  • nest
  • pest
  • pressed
  • quest
  • rest
  • stressed
  • test
  • vest
  • west
  • wrest
  • zest
  • fessed
  • fest
  • yest

Rare: blest, gest, prest

2 syllables49 words

  • abreast
  • accessed
  • addressed
  • arrest
  • assessed
  • attest
  • bequest
  • caressed
  • compressed
  • confessed
  • congest
  • depressed
  • detest
  • digest
  • digressed
  • distressed
  • divest
  • expressed
  • finessed
  • headrest
  • impressed
  • infest
  • ingest
  • inquest
  • invest
  • northwest
  • obsessed
  • oppressed
  • possessed
  • professed
  • progressed
  • protest
  • recessed
  • repressed
  • request
  • southwest
  • suggest
  • suppressed
  • transgressed
  • undressed
  • unrest
  • armrest
  • backrest
  • behest
  • outguessed
  • unstressed

Rare: celeste, retest, slugfest

3 syllables14 words

  • acquiesced
  • coalesced
  • dispossessed
  • manifest
  • snappiest
  • unimpressed
  • palimpsest
  • reassessed
  • reinvest
  • repossessed

Rare: alkahest, rearrest, unaddressed, unprocessed

Near rhymes4 words

The same vowel, consonants that sound alike: close enough for songs and poems.

  • fleshed
  • meshed
  • refreshed
  • enmeshed

Slant rhymes40 words

Looser: the same stressed vowel and a similar ending, the closest first. Common in songs and poems.

  • belt
  • bent
  • cent
  • deft
  • dent
  • felt
  • gent
  • kept
  • left
  • lent
  • melt
  • pelt
  • rent
  • sect
  • sent
  • tent
  • vent
  • welt
  • went
  • wept
  • adept
  • cleft
  • crept
  • dealt
  • dwelt
  • eject
  • elect
  • erect
  • event
  • inept
  • knelt
  • leapt
  • meant
  • scent
  • slept
  • smelt
  • spent
  • swept
  • theft
  • accent

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Pronunciations from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, © 1993-2015 Carnegie Mellon University, matched to our dictionary of English words.

Questions

What rhymes with best?

blessed, breast, chest, crest, dressed, guessed, and every other word that end in the same sounds as best. 90 rhymes in all.

How many syllables are in best?

Best has 1 syllable.

How are the rhymes chosen?

Two words rhyme when they sound the same from their last stressed vowel to the end: these are perfect rhymes, matched by sound, not by spelling. Near rhymes keep the vowel and swap a consonant for one that sounds alike, like time and mine.

What are near rhymes for best?

fleshed, meshed, refreshed, enmeshed and the other 4 near rhymes: the same vowel sound as best, with consonants that sound alike.

What are slant rhymes for best?

Looser rhymes with the same stressed vowel and a similar ending, the closest first: belt, bent, cent, deft, dent, felt. Songwriters use them where a perfect rhyme would sound forced.

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