Words That Rhyme With Key
192 rhymes for "key" (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
- "key" is easy to rhyme: be, free, he and me 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 cease, ease and eat.
- Longer rhymes like agree and degree let you end a line on a stronger, more surprising word.
Perfect rhymes for key (72)
The same sound from the last stressed vowel to the end.
1 syllable
2 syllables
3 syllables
4+ syllables
- interviewee
Near rhymes for key (120)
Slant rhymes: the same vowel sound with a different consonant.
1 syllable
- cease
- ease
- eat
- feed
- feet
- heat
- meet
- need
- peace
- piece
- please
- sheet
- speed
- street
- these
- treat
- beat
- breed
- breeze
- cheat
- cheese
- creed
- deed
- feat
- fleet
- freed
- freeze
- greed
- keyed
- meat
- neat
- seat
- seed
- squeeze
- suite
- sweet
- bead
- beet
- bleed
- cede
- cleat
- crease
- fleece
- frieze
- geese
- grease
- greet
- heed
- knead
- kneed
- lease
- mete
- niece
- peat
- plead
- pleat
- quays
- reed
- seize
- skied
- sleet
- sneeze
- tease
- teat
- teed
- tweed
- tweet
- weed
- wheat
- wheeze
2 syllables
- agreed
- complete
- concrete
- decrease
- delete
- increase
- indeed
- mislead
- police
- release
- repeat
- succeed
- compete
- concede
- defeat
- discrete
- disease
- elite
- exceed
- misread
- precede
- proceed
- receipt
- reread
- accede
- apiece
- appease
- caprice
- conceit
- decease
- deceit
- decreed
- deplete
- excrete
- impede
- misdeed
- obese
- offbeat
- petite
- recede
- replete
- retreat
- secede
- secrete
- trapeze
- unseat
3 syllables
- guaranteed
- incomplete
- disagreed
- expertise
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What rhymes with key?
Common perfect rhymes for key include be, free, he, me, plea, re, see and she. This page lists 192 rhymes in total, including near and multisyllable rhymes.
What is a near rhyme for key?
Near rhymes, also called slant rhymes, keep the vowel sound of key but change a consonant. Good ones include cease, ease, eat, feed, feet and heat.
How many syllables are in key?
Key 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.