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Words That Rhyme With Purple

Purple has no perfect rhyme in everyday English. Writers reach for half rhymes like circle, hurtle and turtle, or the rare word hirple (to limp).

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Near rhymes5 words

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

  • burble
  • gerbil
  • verbal
  • herbal
  • nonverbal

Slant rhymes40 words

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

  • circle
  • girdle
  • gurgle
  • hurdle
  • hurtle
  • kernel
  • turtle
  • colonel
  • eternal
  • fertile
  • journal
  • servile
  • thermal
  • encircle
  • external
  • inertial
  • internal
  • maternal
  • paternal
  • reversal
  • dispersal
  • fraternal
  • infertile
  • nocturnal
  • rehearsal
  • universal
  • commercial
  • controversial
  • uncontroversial
  • myrtle
  • vernal
  • diurnal
  • infernal
  • epidermal
  • geothermal
  • infomercial
  • noncommercial
  • hurtful
  • liberal
  • squirrel
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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 purple?

Purple has no perfect rhyme in everyday English. Writers reach for half rhymes like circle, hurtle and turtle, or the rare word hirple (to limp).

How many syllables are in purple?

Purple 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 slant rhymes for purple?

Looser rhymes with the same stressed vowel and a similar ending, the closest first: circle, girdle, gurgle, hurdle, hurtle, kernel. Songwriters use them where a perfect rhyme would sound forced.

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