Words That Rhyme With Initial
147 rhymes for "initial" (3 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
- "initial" is easy to rhyme: official, judicial, artificial and beneficial 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 provincial, dismissal and epistle.
- For rap, multisyllable matches like initialed, commission and condition carry the rhyme across more than one syllable and make a line sound tighter.
Perfect rhymes for initial (8)
The same sound from the last stressed vowel to the end.
3 syllables
- official
- judicial
4+ syllables
- artificial
- beneficial
- superficial
- unofficial
- prejudicial
- sacrificial
Multisyllable rhymes for initial (120)
The same vowel sounds across the last syllables, the way rap rhymes are stacked.
3 syllables
- initialed
- commission
- condition
- commissioned
- submission
- dismissals
- emission
- ignition
- clinician
- addition
- decision
- distinction
- edition
- efficient
- position
- sufficient
- suspicion
- abysmal
- conditioned
- conviction
- delicious
- dismisses
- extinction
- malicious
- positioned
- suspicious
- tradition
- addiction
- enigma
- fictitious
- militia
- petition
- petitioned
- physician
- admitted
- assistant
- commitment
- consistent
- convinces
- convincing
- description
- division
- existed
- explicit
- insisted
- religion
- religious
- specific
- submitted
- submitting
- committed
- dismissing
- implicit
- prescription
- provision
- subscription
4+ syllables
- definition
- recognition
- admonition
- ammunition
- noncommittal
- participle
- premonition
- recondition
- redefinition
- reminisces
- precondition
- competition
- composition
- mechanism
- opposition
- abolition
- acquisition
- communism
- contradiction
- disposition
- exhibition
- expedition
- inefficient
- inhibition
- insufficient
- mathematician
- politician
- proposition
- reminiscent
- repetition
- anachronism
- antagonism
- benediction
- determinism
- exposition
- extradition
- feminism
- humanism
- imposition
- inquisition
- juxtaposition
- microorganism
- organism
- predisposition
- propositioned
- reconditioned
- reminiscence
- reminiscing
- repetitious
- requisition
- requisitioned
- statistician
- supposition
- surreptitious
- totalitarianism
- vegetarianism
- erudition
- presupposition
- theoretician
- criticism
- engineering
- inconsistent
- scientific
- television
Near rhymes for initial (19)
Slant rhymes: the same vowel sound with a different consonant.
3 syllables
- provincial
- dismissal
- epistle
2 syllables
- wishful
- civil
- drivel
- missile
- whistle
- bristle
- chisel
- drizzle
- fizzle
- gristle
- shrivel
- sizzle
- sniffle
- swivel
- thistle
4+ syllables
- antimissile
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Questions about rhymes for initial
What rhymes with initial?
Common perfect rhymes for initial include official, judicial, artificial, beneficial, superficial, unofficial, prejudicial and sacrificial. This page lists 147 rhymes in total, including near and multisyllable rhymes.
What is a near rhyme for initial?
Near rhymes, also called slant rhymes, keep the vowel sound of initial but change a consonant. Good ones include provincial, dismissal, epistle, wishful, civil and drivel.
How many syllables are in initial?
Initial has 3 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.