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Words That Rhyme With Hold

70 words rhyme with hold, from 1 to 3 syllables: bold, bowled, cold, doled, fold and more, the everyday words first. Then 9 near rhymes, like bolt, colt, jolt, molt.

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1 syllable18 words

  • bold
  • bowled
  • cold
  • doled
  • fold
  • gold
  • holed
  • mold
  • old
  • polled
  • rolled
  • scold
  • sold
  • strolled
  • told
  • tolled
  • wold

Rare: mould

2 syllables41 words

  • behold
  • billfold
  • blindfold
  • cajoled
  • consoled
  • controlled
  • enrolled
  • extolled
  • foothold
  • foretold
  • household
  • paroled
  • patrolled
  • stronghold
  • threshold
  • unfold
  • untold
  • uphold
  • withhold
  • bankrolled
  • enfold
  • fourfold
  • freehold
  • handhold
  • leasehold
  • outsold
  • potholed
  • remold
  • resold
  • sixfold
  • tenfold
  • threefold
  • toehold
  • twofold
  • unrolled
  • unsold

Rare: ahold, eightfold, fivefold, mangold, ninefold

3 syllables11 words

  • buttonholed
  • manifold
  • marigold
  • pigeonholed
  • uncontrolled
  • centerfold
  • decontrolled
  • oversold
  • stranglehold
  • undersold

Rare: sevenfold

Near rhymes9 words

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

  • bolt
  • colt
  • jolt
  • molt
  • revolt
  • volt
  • deadbolt
  • unbolt

Rare: holt

Slant rhymes40 words

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

  • boned
  • domed
  • dozed
  • homed
  • honed
  • hosed
  • nosed
  • owned
  • posed
  • robed
  • toned
  • zoned
  • closed
  • combed
  • droned
  • eloped
  • loaned
  • moaned
  • phoned
  • probed
  • roamed
  • stoned
  • clothed
  • deposed
  • exposed
  • groaned
  • imposed
  • loathed
  • opposed
  • bemoaned
  • composed
  • condoned
  • disowned
  • disposed
  • enclosed
  • proposed
  • supposed
  • bulldozed
  • dethroned
  • disclosed

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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 hold?

bold, bowled, cold, doled, fold, gold, and every other word that end in the same sounds as hold. 70 rhymes in all.

How many syllables are in hold?

Hold 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 hold?

bolt, colt, jolt, molt and the other 9 near rhymes: the same vowel sound as hold, with consonants that sound alike.

What are slant rhymes for hold?

Looser rhymes with the same stressed vowel and a similar ending, the closest first: boned, domed, dozed, homed, honed, hosed. Songwriters use them where a perfect rhyme would sound forced.

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