Words That Rhyme With Pause
135 rhymes for "pause" (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
- "pause" is easy to rhyme: cause, draws, laws and clause 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 logs, songs and wrongs.
- Longer rhymes like because and applause let you end a line on a stronger, more surprising word.
Perfect rhymes for pause (16)
The same sound from the last stressed vowel to the end.
1 syllable
- cause
- draws
- laws
- clause
- flaws
- claws
- gauze
- gnaws
- jaws
- saws
- straws
- thaws
2 syllables
- because
- applause
- withdraws
- guffaws
Near rhymes for pause (119)
Slant rhymes: the same vowel sound with a different consonant.
1 syllable
- logs
- songs
- wrongs
- blogs
- dawns
- fogs
- frauds
- gongs
- lauds
- lawns
- longs
- pawns
- prawns
- prongs
- throngs
- yawns
- cross
- draw
- law
- loss
- saw
- flaw
- sauce
- straw
- toss
- caw
- claw
- dos
- dross
- gloss
- gnaw
- jaw
- moss
- paw
- thaw
- talks
- thoughts
- walks
- balks
- broths
- chalks
- cloths
- coughs
- froths
- hawks
- moths
- offs
- scoffs
- squawks
- stalks
- troughs
- calls
- doors
- falls
- off
- scores
- stores
- walls
- balls
- bores
- cloth
- crawls
- floors
- halls
- pours
- wars
- bawls
- brawls
- broth
- chores
- cores
- drawers
- drawls
- fours
- froth
- galls
- gores
- hauls
- malls
- moth
- oars
- ores
- pores
- roars
- shawls
- shores
- smalls
- snores
- soars
- sores
- spores
- sprawls
- squalls
- stalls
2 syllables
3 syllables
- guarantors
- underscores
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Questions about rhymes for pause
What rhymes with pause?
Common perfect rhymes for pause include cause, draws, laws, clause, flaws, claws, gauze and gnaws. This page lists 135 rhymes in total, including near and multisyllable rhymes.
What is a near rhyme for pause?
Near rhymes, also called slant rhymes, keep the vowel sound of pause but change a consonant. Good ones include logs, songs, wrongs, blogs, dawns and fogs.
How many syllables are in pause?
Pause 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.