Rhyming dictionary
Words that rhyme with adult
Adult has 2 syllables. The second syllable is stressed. It has 2 common pronunciations, so each one has its own list of rhymes below.
Top rhymes for adult: cult, result, insult, consult, occult, exult.
“adult” rhyming with “cult”
Perfect rhymes for adult
61 syllable
- cult
2 syllables
- result
- insult
- consult
- occult
- exult
Near rhymes for adult
80Same vowel sound, different consonants. Closest-sounding first.
1 syllable
- but
- what
- cut
- shut
- skull
- hull
- nut
- gut
- dull
- hut
- null
- strut
- cults
- putt
- rut
- lull
- gull
- cull
- mull
- tut
- mutt
- culled
- pulsed
- glut
2 syllables
- results
- adults
- somewhat
- insults
- uncut
- engulfed
- repulsed
- consults
- rebut
- abut
- exults
- confront
- impulse
- indulged
- affront
“adult” (2 syllables)
Near rhymes for adult
80Same vowel sound, different consonants. Closest-sounding first.
2 syllables
- adults
- saddle
- paddle
- straddle
- addle
- saddled
- addled
- paddled
- straddled
- added
- battle
- handle
- hadn't
- handled
- scandal
- cattle
- that'll
- candle
- bandit
- rattle
- battled
- padded
- rattled
- sandal
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- vandal
- chattel
- tattle
- prattle
- tattled
- prattled
- channel
- planet
- panel
- habit
- barrel
- ballot
- rabbit
- carol
- fragile
- granite
- palette
- basil
- carrot
- madden
- gadget
- abbot
- agile
- palate
- saddest
- flannel
- pallet
- paddock
- scrabble
- dazzle
- rabble
- mallet
- babel
- paddles
- saddles
- haddock
- agate
- maggot
- babble
- dabbled
- gaggle
- dabble
- haggle
- straddles
- annul
- gladden
3 syllables
- astraddle
- embattled
- mishandled
- mishandle
- apparel
- inhabit
- sporadic
- dismantle
- nomadic
4+ syllables
- pomegranate
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Questions
- What rhymes with adult?
- The closest perfect rhymes for adult are cult, result, insult, consult, occult and exult. There are 6 in all, grouped by syllables on this page.
- How many syllables are in adult?
- Adult has 2 syllables. The second syllable is stressed.
- What are some near rhymes for adult?
- Near rhymes keep the vowel sound but change the consonants, which is often what a lyric needs. For adult, try but, what, cut, shut and skull.
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Pronunciations from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (Carnegie Mellon University). Word frequency from wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0), word lists from SCOWL, offensive-word filtering from LDNOOBW (CC BY 4.0).