Words That Rhyme With Mistaken
219 rhymes for "mistaken" (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
- "mistaken" is easy to rhyme: awaken, forsaken, retaken and taken 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 mistaking, forsaking and remaking.
- For rap, multisyllable matches like contagion, crustacean and containing carry the rhyme across more than one syllable and make a line sound tighter.
Perfect rhymes for mistaken (9)
The same sound from the last stressed vowel to the end.
3 syllables
- awaken
- forsaken
- retaken
2 syllables
- taken
- akin
- shaken
- bacon
- waken
4+ syllables
- reawaken
Multisyllable rhymes for mistaken (120)
The same vowel sounds across the last syllables, the way rap rhymes are stacked.
3 syllables
- contagion
- crustacean
- containing
- obtaining
- occasion
- updated
- retaining
- sustaining
- truncating
- unstable
- dictating
- dictation
- detailing
- displaying
4+ syllables
- devastating
- devastation
- application
- communication
- complicating
- dedicating
- education
- implication
- indication
- interpretation
- invitation
- irritated
- irritating
- justification
- publication
- recommendation
- accommodation
- adaptation
- advantageous
- advocating
- allegation
- allocating
- allocation
- anticipating
- anticipation
- clarification
- classification
- communicating
- compensation
- complication
- computation
- connotation
- consultation
- degradation
- devastated
- duplicating
- duplication
- educating
- experimentation
- identification
- indicating
- investigating
- investigation
- irritation
- legislation
- limitation
- modification
- multiplication
- notification
- obligation
- occupation
- orientated
- participating
- presentation
- qualification
- reinstated
- reputation
- specification
- verification
- agitating
- agitation
- amputation
- annotation
- confrontation
- debilitating
- facilitating
- fermentation
- fragmentation
- gravitating
- gravitation
- habitation
- hesitating
- hesitation
- imitating
- imitation
- incapacitating
- meditating
- meditation
- necessitating
- precipitating
- recitation
- rehabilitating
- resuscitating
- sanitation
- segmentation
- vegetation
- visitation
- administration
- combination
- complicated
- demonstration
- explanation
- imagination
- isolating
- organization
- sophisticated
- concatenating
- designating
- discriminating
- dominating
- eliminating
- fascinating
- nominating
- originating
- representations
- terminating
Near rhymes for mistaken (90)
Slant rhymes: the same vowel sound with a different consonant.
3 syllables
- mistaking
- forsaking
- remaking
- retaking
- creating
- persuading
- relating
- translating
- updating
- awaiting
- debating
- degrading
- escaping
- invading
- upgrading
- verbatim
- abating
- blockading
- cascading
- crusading
- deflating
- downgrading
- equating
- evading
- inflating
- misshapen
- negating
- parading
- pervading
- sedating
- berating
- elating
- postdating
- restating
2 syllables
- pagan
- breaking
- making
- taking
- baking
- plaguing
- shaking
- waking
- aching
- braking
- faking
- flaking
- quaking
- raking
- snaking
- staking
- dating
- stating
- waiting
- aiding
- hating
- rating
- shaping
- trading
- wading
- aping
- baiting
- braiding
- crating
- draping
- fading
- gaping
- gating
- grading
- grating
- laden
- lading
- maiden
- mating
- plating
- raiding
- scraping
- shading
- skating
- slating
- straighten
- taping
- weighting
4+ syllables
- reinstating
- annotating
- masquerading
- overrating
- serenading
- ultimatum
- innovating
- procreating
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Questions about rhymes for mistaken
What rhymes with mistaken?
Common perfect rhymes for mistaken include awaken, forsaken, retaken, taken, akin, shaken, bacon and waken. This page lists 219 rhymes in total, including near and multisyllable rhymes.
What is a near rhyme for mistaken?
Near rhymes, also called slant rhymes, keep the vowel sound of mistaken but change a consonant. Good ones include mistaking, forsaking, remaking, retaking, creating and persuading.
How many syllables are in mistaken?
Mistaken 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.