Words That Rhyme With Fail

42 rhymes for "fail" (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

  • "fail" is easy to rhyme: mail, sale, scale and hail all share its ending sound, so you can hold one rhyme across a whole verse.
  • Longer rhymes like detail and entail let you end a line on a stronger, more surprising word.

Perfect rhymes for fail (42)

The same sound from the last stressed vowel to the end.

1 syllable

  • mail
  • sale
  • scale
  • hail
  • jail
  • male
  • nail
  • pale
  • rail
  • sail
  • snail
  • stale
  • tail
  • tale
  • trail
  • whale
  • ail
  • ale
  • bail
  • bale
  • flail
  • frail
  • gale
  • hale
  • pail
  • quail
  • veil
  • wail
  • they'll

2 syllables

  • detail
  • entail
  • prevail
  • assail
  • avail
  • curtail
  • derail
  • email
  • exhale
  • impale
  • inhale
  • regale
  • unveil

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What rhymes with fail?

Common perfect rhymes for fail include mail, sale, scale, hail, jail, male, nail and pale. This page lists 42 rhymes in total, including near and multisyllable rhymes.

How many syllables are in fail?

Fail 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.