Words That Rhyme With Speed
169 rhymes for "speed" (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
- "speed" is easy to rhyme: feed, lead, need and read 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 deemed, pleased and seemed.
- Longer rhymes like agreed and indeed let you end a line on a stronger, more surprising word.
Perfect rhymes for speed (49)
The same sound from the last stressed vowel to the end.
1 syllable
- feed
- lead
- need
- read
- breed
- creed
- deed
- freed
- fried
- greed
- keyed
- seed
- bead
- bleed
- cede
- heed
- knead
- kneed
- plead
- reed
- skied
- teed
- tweed
- weed
- he'd
- peed
- she'd
- we'd
2 syllables
3 syllables
- guaranteed
- disagreed
- intercede
- supersede
Near rhymes for speed (120)
Slant rhymes: the same vowel sound with a different consonant.
1 syllable
- deemed
- pleased
- seemed
- breathed
- cleaned
- dreamed
- gleaned
- leaned
- screamed
- squeezed
- beamed
- breezed
- creamed
- eased
- fiend
- gleamed
- greened
- grieved
- heaved
- peeved
- preened
- schemed
- screened
- seized
- sheathed
- sneezed
- steamed
- streamed
- teamed
- teased
- weaned
- weaved
- be
- eat
- feet
- free
- he
- heat
- key
- me
- meet
- plea
- see
- she
- sheet
- street
- tea
- three
- treat
- tree
- we
- beat
- cheat
- feat
- fee
- fleet
- knee
- meat
- neat
- sea
- seat
- suite
- sweet
- thee
- wee
- east
- least
- reached
- cheap
- deep
- field
- keep
- peak
- seek
- sleep
- speak
- week
2 syllables
3 syllables
- intervened
- preconceived
- disagree
- guarantee
- incomplete
- engineered
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Questions about rhymes for speed
What rhymes with speed?
Common perfect rhymes for speed include feed, lead, need, read, breed, creed, deed and freed. This page lists 169 rhymes in total, including near and multisyllable rhymes.
What is a near rhyme for speed?
Near rhymes, also called slant rhymes, keep the vowel sound of speed but change a consonant. Good ones include deemed, pleased, seemed, breathed, cleaned and dreamed.
How many syllables are in speed?
Speed 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.