Rhyming dictionary
Words that rhyme with alternative
Alternative has 4 syllables. The second syllable is stressed. It has no common perfect rhymes, but 79 near rhymes work well in a lyric.
Top near rhymes for alternative: furnaces, hernia, hermitage, earnestness, furnishes, versatile, furnishings, spurious.
Near rhymes for alternative
79Same vowel sound, different consonants. Closest-sounding first.
3 syllables
- furnaces
- hernia
- hermitage
- earnestness
- furnishes
- versatile
- furnishings
- spurious
- skirmishes
- flourishes
- journeying
- nourishes
- myrmidons
- burnable
- services
- journalist
- journalists
- worrying
- purchases
- courteous
- terminus
- furnishing
- worrisome
- surpluses
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- hurrying
- scurrying
- thirtieth
- scurrilous
- circuited
- currying
- myrmidon
- purposes
- earliest
- surgical
- surfaces
- tournaments
- terminals
- surrogates
- circuses
- worthiness
- sturdiness
- furbishes
4+ syllables
- alternatives
- affirmative
- superlative
- conservative
- interpretive
- preservative
- superlatives
- neoconservative
- ultraconservative
- conservatives
- preservatives
- neoconservatives
- encourages
- luxurious
- hypothermia
- discernible
- discourages
- returnable
- interpreted
- entrepreneurial
- occurrences
- misinterpreted
- impervious
- photojournalist
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- suburbia
- reinterpreted
- misinterpreting
- reassurances
- reinterpreting
- repurchases
- transferable
- liturgical
- metallurgical
- luxuriant
- divergences
- nonsurgical
- nontransferable
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Questions
- What rhymes with alternative?
- The closest near rhymes for alternative are furnaces, hernia, hermitage, earnestness, furnishes, versatile, furnishings, spurious, skirmishes and flourishes. There are 79 in all, grouped by syllables on this page.
- How many syllables are in alternative?
- Alternative has 4 syllables. The second syllable is stressed.
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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).