Words That Rhyme With Defense
261 rhymes for "defense" (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
- "defense" is easy to rhyme: expense, commence, condense and immense 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 events, invents and prevents.
- For rap, multisyllable matches like defend, offend and professed carry the rhyme across more than one syllable and make a line sound tighter.
Perfect rhymes for defense (21)
The same sound from the last stressed vowel to the end.
2 syllables
- expense
- commence
- condense
- immense
- intense
- offense
- dispense
- incense
- pretense
- suspense
3 syllables
- commonsense
4+ syllables
- misrepresents
Multisyllable rhymes for defense (120)
The same vowel sounds across the last syllables, the way rap rhymes are stacked.
2 syllables
- defend
- offend
- professed
- affect
- effect
- event
- invent
- prevent
- ascend
- assessed
- descend
- infect
- invest
- possessed
- resent
- ascent
- assent
- avenged
- confessed
- descent
- dissent
- infest
- recessed
- affair
- ahead
- cassette
- depend
- except
- subset
- suspend
- upset
- accent
- amend
- append
- consent
- impend
- insect
- obsessed
- repent
- unfair
- unset
- avenge
- befell
- behead
- beset
- cement
- commend
- gazette
- gunmen
- incensed
- lament
- simplex
- addressed
- again
- attempt
- attend
- compared
- connect
- detect
- expect
- expressed
- extend
- extent
- himself
- intend
- itself
- misled
- protect
- reflect
- regret
- reject
- repair
- request
- respect
- subject
- suggest
- suspect
- compressed
- congest
- contend
- depressed
- embed
- exempt
- impressed
- indent
- inspect
- intent
- oneself
- oppressed
- progressed
- refresh
- repaired
- suppressed
- collect
- compare
- elect
- instead
- select
3 syllables
4+ syllables
- misrepresent
- aftereffect
Near rhymes for defense (120)
Slant rhymes: the same vowel sound with a different consonant.
2 syllables
- events
- invents
- prevents
- consents
- percents
- descents
- dissents
- ferments
- intents
- laments
- repents
- resents
- express
- forgets
- success
- unless
- upsets
- assess
- cassettes
- confess
- depress
- distress
- impress
- obsess
- oppress
- possess
- regrets
- resets
- suppress
- brunettes
- cadets
- caress
- convex
- digress
- duets
- finesse
- perplex
- profess
- quartets
- recess
- redress
- repress
- transgress
- undress
- accepts
- affects
- collects
- connects
- corrects
- detects
- directs
- effects
- elects
- expects
- protects
- reflects
- rejects
- requests
- respects
- selects
- suggests
- suspects
1 syllable
3 syllables
- represents
- circumvents
- discontents
- nonetheless
- acquiesce
- cigarettes
- coalesce
- convalesce
- dispossess
- pirouettes
- silhouettes
4+ syllables
- nevertheless
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Questions about rhymes for defense
What rhymes with defense?
Common perfect rhymes for defense include expense, commence, condense, immense, intense, offense, dispense and incense. This page lists 261 rhymes in total, including near and multisyllable rhymes.
What is a near rhyme for defense?
Near rhymes, also called slant rhymes, keep the vowel sound of defense but change a consonant. Good ones include events, invents, prevents, consents, percents and descents.
How many syllables are in defense?
Defense 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.