Words That Rhyme With Receive
251 rhymes for "receive" (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
- "receive" is easy to rhyme: achieve, believe, naive and conceive 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 belief, relief and debrief.
- For rap, multisyllable matches like received, succeed and concede carry the rhyme across more than one syllable and make a line sound tighter.
Perfect rhymes for receive (25)
The same sound from the last stressed vowel to the end.
1 syllable
- leave
- thieve
- cleave
- eave
- eve
- grieve
- heave
- peeve
- sleeve
- weave
- we've
3 syllables
- disbelieve
- interweave
- preconceive
Multisyllable rhymes for receive (120)
The same vowel sounds across the last syllables, the way rap rhymes are stacked.
2 syllables
- received
- succeed
- concede
- conceived
- exceed
- precede
- proceed
- receipt
- unseen
- besiege
- besieged
- conceit
- deceased
- deceit
- deceived
- recede
- secede
- unseat
- gutsy
- asleep
- machine
- conceal
- concealed
- defeat
- regime
- cuisine
- diseased
- esteem
- fifteenth
- physique
- ravine
- redeem
- sixteenth
- trustee
- smutty
- striptease
- achieved
- agree
- believed
- complete
- degree
- indeed
- mislead
- repeat
- reveal
- revealed
- beliefs
- fifteen
- misread
- relieved
- sixteen
- supreme
- misdeed
- agreed
- between
- concrete
- delete
3 syllables
- diocese
- emphases
- indices
- syntheses
- vertices
- kerosene
- preconceived
- company
- guarantee
- probably
- magazine
- absentee
- contravene
- devotee
- limousine
- nominee
- paucity
- pointedly
- seventeenth
- startlingly
- amputee
- guaranty
- disagree
- engineered
- guaranteed
- incomplete
- gasoline
4+ syllables
- analyses
- parentheses
- appendices
- hypotheses
- idiosyncrasy
- insufficiency
- ability
- compatibility
- identity
- possibility
- reality
- apostrophe
- dynamically
- homosexuality
- inferiority
- probability
- stupidity
- actuality
- adversity
- apologetically
- dubiously
- indignity
- indiscriminately
- ingenuity
- radioactivity
- sensuality
- triviality
- agonizingly
- infertility
- staggeringly
- apology
- electronically
- mythology
- predominantly
- elegantly
- indignantly
Near rhymes for receive (106)
Slant rhymes: the same vowel sound with a different consonant.
2 syllables
1 syllable
- brief
- leaf
- beef
- chief
- grief
- thief
- reef
- sheaf
- sheaves
- cease
- ease
- keys
- peace
- piece
- please
- sees
- teeth
- these
- trees
- breathe
- breeze
- cheese
- fees
- frees
- freeze
- knees
- squeeze
- bees
- crease
- fleas
- fleece
- flees
- frieze
- gees
- geese
- grease
- heath
- lease
- leash
- niece
- peas
- pleas
- quays
- quiche
- seas
- seethe
- seize
- sheath
- sheathe
- skis
- sneeze
- sprees
- teas
- tease
- tees
- teethe
- threes
- wheeze
- wreath
- jeez
- pees
3 syllables
- disbelief
- guarantees
- underneath
- disagrees
- expertise
- overseas
- absentees
- appointees
- devotees
- nominees
- referees
- amputees
- guaranties
- potpourris
- retirees
4+ syllables
- aperitif
- recitatives
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What rhymes with receive?
Common perfect rhymes for receive include achieve, believe, naive, conceive, perceive, relieve, retrieve and bereave. This page lists 251 rhymes in total, including near and multisyllable rhymes.
What is a near rhyme for receive?
Near rhymes, also called slant rhymes, keep the vowel sound of receive but change a consonant. Good ones include belief, relief, debrief, motif, agrees and decrease.
How many syllables are in receive?
Receive 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.