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Words That Sound Like Gibbous

Sounds Similar Below are words sounding like gibbous or sound alike, slightly less accurate than our similar pronounced words below.

Pronounced Similar To Gibbous

Words pronounced similar to gibbous, slightly more accurate than words sounding like gibbous above.

Similar Characters/Text To Gibbous

Similar Characters - What Rhymes With This calculates the similarity between word #1 into word #2. the complexity of this algorithm is O(N**3) where N is the length of the longest string.

Levenshtein Comparisons Gibbous

Levenshtein - What Rhymes With The Levenshtein distance is defined as the minimal number of characters you have to replace, insert or delete to transform word#1 into word#2. The complexity of the algorithm is O(m*n), where n and m are the length of word #1 and word #2 (When compared to Similar Text above, which is O(max(n,m)**3)).

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Google Phonetics Books
- Phonics from A to Z: A Practical Guide - More
- Rhyme: template pack By Ruth Atkinson - More
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Rhyme Type Tips

Although what you may see as a proper rhyme type for a match of words, and other rhymes may not seem to fit together at all. Below are the types of rhymes available on whatrhymeswith.com and will answer why some words are matched. You can even find rhymes for "moons".

Assonant

Rhyming of similar vowels but different consonants.

Example: dip/limp

Consonant

Similar consonants but different vowels.

Example: limp/lump

Eye

Based on spelling and not on sound.

Example: love/move

Feminine

(double, triple, extra-syllable, multi-syllable, extended)
Differing beginnings followed by multiple rhyming syllables.

Example: drinking/shrinking

Identical

Uses the same word to rhyme with itself however may hold a different meaning.

An Identical rhyme uses the same word to rhyme with itself however may hold a different meaning. As an example, life rhymes with life and ground can rhyme with ground as an identical rhyme example like the following poetry:

Our world was bound before life
As we live to astound the wife
And we are alive to live this life

You should not confuse an identical rhyme with identical sounding words with different meanings like perfect (verb) and perfect (adjective perf\'ect). More information on this is coming soon including identical rhyme schemes, and finding words with identical sounds which you can find on the right side of each word page of What Rhymes With.

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Light Line

Rhyming of a stressed syllable with a secondary stress.

Example: mat/combat

Macaronic

Rhyming of two words with different languages.

Masculine

Differing consonant sounds ending with identically stressed syllables.

Example: report/support

Near

(half, slant, approximate, off, oblique)
Final consonant sounds the same but initial consonants and vowel sounds are different.

Example: tought/sat

Perfect

(exact, true, full)
Begins with different sounds and end with the same.

Example: pie/die

Rich

(French for rime riche)
Word that rhymes with its homonym.

Example: blue/blew

Scarce

Rhyming of words with limited rhyming alternatives.

Example: whisp/lisp

Unidentified

The word, phrase, rhyme, poem or article has not yet been identified to be placed in a specific rhyme type.

Wrenched

A stressed syllable with an unstressed one (occurs most often in ballads and folk poetry).

Example: lady/a bee

Rhyme Scheme Tips

Although what you may see as a proper scheme for a rhyme, and other rhymes may not seem to fit together at all all. They may be a different type of rhyme as mentioned above, and could be matched for a type of rhyme scheme as listed below. Below are the rhyme schemes available on whatrhymeswith.com

Apocopate

Rhyming a line and with the penultimate syllable.

Broken

(interlaced)
Rhymes that occur at the caesura and line end within pairs.

Crossed

(alternating, interlocking)
Rhyming in abab pattern.

End

(terminal)
Rhymes at the end of a line.

Envelope

(inserted)

Initial

(head)
A rhyme at the beginning of a line.

Intermittent

A rhyme every other line.

Internal

Rhyme that occurs within a line.

Irregular

Rhyming in no pattern (irregular).

Leonine

(medial)
The rhyme is at the caesura and at the end of the same line.

Linked

Rhyme that depends on completing the rhyme by enjambment over the end line.

Rhyme Royal

A seven-line iambic pentameter stanza rhyming ababbcc

Sporadic

(occasional)
Rhyming unpredictably in an unrhymed poem.

Thorn Line

Line without a rhyme in a rhymed passage/poem.

Unidentified

These rhymes/poems/articles and words are not yet identified as a scheme in the database.

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Syllable Count For Rhymes

A syllable is a basic unit of written and spoken language. It is a unit consisting of uninterrupted sound that can be used to make up words.

Example: hotel has two syllables: ho and tel.

On every word found in our dictionary of rhymes will indicated the syllables counted. Our counter is not entirely accurate due to the numerous syllabic anomolies found within the English language (e.g., parted, priest, scariest, wished). The only way to get a 100% accurate count is to do a dictionary lookup, we suggest http://dictionary.reference.com/ for definitions.

Six Kinds of Syllables

Closed Syllables: One and only one vowel, and it ends in a consonant. Example: in, ask, truck, sock, stretch, twelfth, and on.
Open Syllables: An open syllable has one and only one vowel, and that vowel occurs at the end of the syllable. Example: no, she, and spry.
Silent-E Syllables: Ends in an e, has one and only one consonant before that e, and has one and only one vowel before that consonant. Examples include ate, ice, tune, slope, and these.
Vowel Combination Syllables: A cluster of two or three vowels or a vowel-consonant unit with a sound or sounds particular to that unit. Example: rain, day, see, veil, pie, piece, cue, and true.
Vowel-R Syllables: Includes one and only one vowel followed by an r, or one vowel followed by an r which is followed by a silent e, or a vowel combination followed by an r. Example: car, or, care, and air.
Consonant-L-E Syllables: A consonant is followed by le. The vowel sound in these syllables is the schwa sound that occurs before the "l". Example: -ble, -cle, -dle, -fle, and -gle.

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