Words That Rhyme With Sleep
136 rhymes for "sleep" (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
- "sleep" is easy to rhyme: cheap, deep, keep and creep 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 heaped, peeped and reaped.
- Longer rhymes like asleep and oversleep let you end a line on a stronger, more surprising word.
Perfect rhymes for sleep (16)
The same sound from the last stressed vowel to the end.
2 syllables
3 syllables
- oversleep
Near rhymes for sleep (120)
Slant rhymes: the same vowel sound with a different consonant.
1 syllable
- heaped
- peeped
- reaped
- seeped
- steeped
- beeped
- eat
- feed
- feet
- heat
- meet
- need
- peak
- seek
- sheet
- speak
- speed
- street
- treat
- week
- beat
- breed
- cheat
- cheek
- clique
- creed
- deed
- feat
- fleet
- freak
- freed
- greed
- keyed
- league
- leak
- meat
- neat
- seat
- seed
- sneak
- suite
- sweet
- weak
- bead
- beak
- beet
- bleak
- bleed
- cede
- chic
- cleat
- creak
- creek
- eke
- greet
- heed
- knead
- kneed
- leek
- meek
- mete
- peat
- peek
- pique
- plead
- pleat
- reed
- reek
- sheikh
- shriek
- skied
- sleek
- sleet
- squeak
- streak
- teak
- teat
- teed
- tweak
- tweed
- tweet
- weed
- wheat
- wreak
2 syllables
3 syllables
- guaranteed
- incomplete
- disagreed
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Questions about rhymes for sleep
What rhymes with sleep?
Common perfect rhymes for sleep include cheap, deep, keep, creep, heap, leap, sheep and steep. This page lists 136 rhymes in total, including near and multisyllable rhymes.
What is a near rhyme for sleep?
Near rhymes, also called slant rhymes, keep the vowel sound of sleep but change a consonant. Good ones include heaped, peeped, reaped, seeped, steeped and beeped.
How many syllables are in sleep?
Sleep 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.