Words That Rhyme With Across
229 rhymes for "across" (2 syllables): perfect rhymes, multisyllable rhymes and near rhymes, each grouped by syllable count with the most common words first. Click a linked word to see what rhymes with it.
How to use this rhyme
- "across" is easy to rhyme: emboss, lacrosse, recross and cross all share its ending sound, so you can hold one rhyme across a whole verse.
- For a softer, less predictable sound, try a near rhyme such as because, withdraw and applause.
- For rap, multisyllable matches like crisscross, crisscrossed and abroad carry the rhyme across more than one syllable and make a line sound tighter.
Perfect rhymes for across (12)
The same sound from the last stressed vowel to the end.
2 syllables
- emboss
- lacrosse
- recross
Multisyllable rhymes for across (119)
The same vowel sounds across the last syllables, the way rap rhymes are stacked.
2 syllables
- crisscross
- crisscrossed
- abroad
- withdrawn
- defraud
- defrost
- distraught
- accost
- applaud
- jigsaw
- kickoff
- uproar
- reports
- belonged
- exhaust
- explored
- prolonged
- abhors
- aloft
- deplore
- deplored
- embossed
- implored
- retorts
- cutoff
- liftoff
- accord
- afford
- along
- award
- before
- belong
- default
- ignore
- ignored
- inform
- informed
- install
- installed
- record
- resort
- restore
- restored
- support
- toward
- abort
- absorb
- absorbed
- appall
- appalled
- assault
- assort
- conform
- distort
- explore
- import
- pitfall
- prolong
- recalled
- reform
- reformed
- reward
- abhorred
- aboard
- adore
- adored
- adorn
- adorned
- ashore
- befall
- cavort
- clipboard
- conformed
- consort
- contort
- deformed
- deport
- diphthong
- divorced
- exalt
- exhort
- galore
- implore
- inborn
- indoor
- springboard
- switchboard
- unborn
- windfall
- decor
3 syllables
- astronauts
- holocaust
- tablecloth
- applesauce
- protocols
- cosmonaut
- woebegone
- analog
- analogue
- uniform
- dialogue
- aboveboard
- basketball
- carnivore
- commodore
- dinosaur
- epilogue
- guarantor
- harpsichord
- matador
- misinform
- monologue
- reinforced
- synagogue
- tomahawk
- unicorn
- wherewithal
- cannonball
4+ syllables
- triceratops
Near rhymes for across (98)
Slant rhymes: the same vowel sound with a different consonant.
2 syllables
1 syllable
- talks
- thoughts
- walks
- balks
- broths
- chalks
- cloths
- coughs
- froths
- hawks
- moths
- offs
- scoffs
- squawks
- stalks
- troughs
- draw
- draws
- law
- laws
- pause
- saw
- clause
- flaw
- flaws
- straw
- caw
- claw
- claws
- crofts
- flaunts
- frosts
- gauze
- gnaw
- gnaws
- haunts
- honks
- jaunts
- jaw
- jaws
- lofts
- paw
- paws
- saws
- straws
- taunts
- thaw
- thaws
- logs
- songs
- wrongs
- blogs
- dawns
- fogs
- frauds
- gongs
- lauds
- lawns
- longs
- pawns
- prawns
- prongs
- throngs
- yawns
- course
- false
- force
- horse
- off
- source
- cloth
- coarse
- broth
- froth
- hoarse
- mauve
- moth
- quash
- scoff
- trough
3 syllables
- reinforce
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Questions about rhymes for across
What rhymes with across?
Common perfect rhymes for across include emboss, lacrosse, recross, cross, loss, boss, sauce and toss. This page lists 229 rhymes in total, including near and multisyllable rhymes.
What is a near rhyme for across?
Near rhymes, also called slant rhymes, keep the vowel sound of across but change a consonant. Good ones include because, withdraw, applause, exhausts, withdraws and foresaw.
How many syllables are in across?
Across has 2 syllables in standard US pronunciation.
Rhymes use US pronunciations from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (Carnegie Mellon University) and the SCOWL word lists (Kevin Atkinson). Offensive words are left out.