Words That Rhyme With Close
190 rhymes for "close" (1 syllable): 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
- "close" is easy to rhyme: chose, goes, gross and grows 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 floats, folks and hopes.
- Longer rhymes like compose and impose let you end a line on a stronger, more surprising word.
Perfect rhymes for close (70)
The same sound from the last stressed vowel to the end.
1 syllable
2 syllables
3 syllables
- decompose
- diagnose
- grandiose
- interpose
- juxtapose
- presuppose
- predispose
4+ syllables
- superimpose
- misdiagnose
- overexpose
Near rhymes for close (120)
Slant rhymes: the same vowel sound with a different consonant.
1 syllable
- floats
- folks
- hopes
- notes
- quotes
- votes
- boats
- coats
- copes
- jokes
- smokes
- throats
- chokes
- coax
- cokes
- gloats
- goats
- gropes
- growths
- hoax
- loafs
- lopes
- moats
- oaks
- pokes
- ropes
- scopes
- slopes
- soaks
- soaps
- spokes
- stokes
- strokes
- totes
- yokes
- yolks
- bloats
- oats
- blow
- doe
- flow
- go
- grow
- know
- low
- no
- oh
- owe
- posts
- row
- show
- slow
- so
- though
- throw
- glow
- ho
- hosts
- pro
- snow
- toe
- boasts
- coasts
- crow
- dough
- foe
- fro
- ghosts
- hoe
- mow
- roasts
- roe
- sew
- stow
- toasts
- tow
- whoa
- woe
- codes
- loads
- stones
- bones
- clones
- homes
- loans
- moans
- modes
- nodes
- owns
- phones
- roads
- tones
- zones
- both
- drove
- growth
2 syllables
3 syllables
- undergo
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Questions about rhymes for close
What rhymes with close?
Common perfect rhymes for close include chose, goes, gross, grows, knows, most, owes and shows. This page lists 190 rhymes in total, including near and multisyllable rhymes.
What is a near rhyme for close?
Near rhymes, also called slant rhymes, keep the vowel sound of close but change a consonant. Good ones include floats, folks, hopes, notes, quotes and votes.
How many syllables are in close?
Close has 1 syllable 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.