Words That Rhyme With Pursue
234 rhymes for "pursue" (2 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
- "pursue" is easy to rhyme: into, review, renew and undo 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 abuse, amuse and compute.
- For rap, multisyllable matches like pursuits, maroon and marooned carry the rhyme across more than one syllable and make a line sound tighter.
Perfect rhymes for pursue (92)
The same sound from the last stressed vowel to the end.
2 syllables
1 syllable
4+ syllables
- hullabaloo
Multisyllable rhymes for pursue (22)
The same vowel sounds across the last syllables, the way rap rhymes are stacked.
2 syllables
- pursuits
- maroon
- marooned
- perused
- perfume
- perfumed
- whirlpool
3 syllables
- interview
- overview
- overdrew
- overshoot
- afternoon
- interviewed
- interlude
- opportune
- fireproof
- overrule
- overused
- subterfuge
- waterproof
- overruled
4+ syllables
- inopportune
Near rhymes for pursue (120)
Slant rhymes: the same vowel sound with a different consonant.
2 syllables
- abuse
- amuse
- compute
- confuse
- deduce
- exclude
- excuse
- include
- misuse
- produce
- reduce
- refuse
- accuse
- acute
- conclude
- dispute
- induce
- pursued
- pursuit
- recruit
- refute
- renewed
- reuse
- reviewed
- accrued
- allude
- astute
- bemuse
- caboose
- canoed
- commute
- debuted
- delude
- diffuse
- dilute
- disuse
- elude
- ensued
- exude
- infuse
- intrude
- obtuse
- peruse
- pollute
- repute
- salute
- seduce
- uproot
1 syllable
- boot
- choose
- food
- loose
- lose
- root
- route
- shoot
- suit
- use
- whose
- chewed
- crude
- cruise
- cute
- flute
- fruit
- fuse
- juice
- mood
- rude
- screwed
- sued
- viewed
- blued
- booed
- booze
- brewed
- brood
- bruise
- brute
- butte
- chute
- clued
- cooed
- cued
- dude
- feud
- glued
- goose
- hoot
- hued
- jute
- lewd
- loot
- lute
- moose
- moot
- mousse
- muse
- mute
- newt
- noose
- nude
- ooze
- prude
- ruse
- scoot
- shooed
- shrewd
- skewed
- sluice
- snooze
- spewed
- spruce
- stewed
- toot
- truce
- wooed
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Questions about rhymes for pursue
What rhymes with pursue?
Common perfect rhymes for pursue include into, review, renew, undo, untrue, withdrew, accrue and ado. This page lists 234 rhymes in total, including near and multisyllable rhymes.
What is a near rhyme for pursue?
Near rhymes, also called slant rhymes, keep the vowel sound of pursue but change a consonant. Good ones include abuse, amuse, compute, confuse, deduce and exclude.
How many syllables are in pursue?
Pursue has 2 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.