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Words That Rhyme With Person

6 words rhyme with person, from 2 to 4 syllables: worsen, chairperson, salesperson and more, the everyday words first. Then 31 near rhymes, like aspersion, assertion, aversion, coercing.

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2 syllables1 word

  • worsen

3 syllables2 words

  • chairperson
  • salesperson

4 syllables3 words

Rare: businessperson, congressperson, weatherperson

Near rhymes31 words

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

  • aspersion
  • assertion
  • aversion
  • coercing
  • coercion
  • conversing
  • conversion
  • cursing
  • disbursing
  • dispersing
  • dispersion
  • diversion
  • excursion
  • exertion
  • immersion
  • insertion
  • inversion
  • nursing
  • perversion
  • rehearsing
  • reimbursing
  • reversing
  • reversion
  • submersion
  • traversing
  • version
  • desertion
  • incursion
  • layperson
  • subversion

Rare: reassertion

Slant rhymes40 words

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

  • burden
  • sermon
  • turban
  • urchin
  • bourbon
  • certain
  • curtain
  • surgeon
  • urban
  • suburban
  • unburden
  • determine
  • uncertain
  • overburden
  • ermine
  • zircon
  • burgeon
  • earthen
  • sturgeon
  • interurban
  • predetermine
  • vermin
  • virgin
  • irksome
  • urging
  • burning
  • burping
  • curbing
  • curling
  • curving
  • earning
  • firming
  • herding
  • hurling
  • hurting
  • jerking
  • lurking
  • merging
  • perking
  • purging

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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 person?

worsen, chairperson, salesperson: the words that end in the same sounds as person. 6 rhymes in all.

How many syllables are in person?

Person has 2 syllables.

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 person?

aspersion, assertion, aversion, coercing and the other 31 near rhymes: the same vowel sound as person, with consonants that sound alike.

What are slant rhymes for person?

Looser rhymes with the same stressed vowel and a similar ending, the closest first: burden, sermon, turban, urchin, bourbon, certain. Songwriters use them where a perfect rhyme would sound forced.

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