Rhyming dictionary
Words that rhyme with defense
Defense has 2 syllables. The second syllable is stressed. There are 22 perfect rhymes and 80 near rhymes below, grouped by syllables.
Top rhymes for defense: sense, hence, cents, fence, dense, tense, pence, spence.
Perfect rhymes for defense
221 syllable
- sense
- hence
- cents
- fence
- dense
- tense
- pence
- spence
- whence
- thence
2 syllables
- intense
- offense
- expense
- immense
- commence
- suspense
- incense
- dispense
- pretense
- condense
3 syllables
- commonsense
4+ syllables
- misrepresents
Near rhymes for defense
80Same vowel sound, different consonants. Closest-sounding first.
1 syllable
- when
- then
- men
- yes
- less
- friends
- guess
- press
- ten
- dress
- stress
- ben
- mess
- en
- pen
- trends
- ken
- bless
- lens
- den
- spends
- chess
- es
- tenth
Show 18 more
- tens
- glen
- pens
- yen
- jess
- ness
- tents
- rents
- hen
- wen
- cleanse
- sensed
- vents
- hens
- sens
- when's
- fenced
- gents
2 syllables
- us
- again
- against
- events
- success
- unless
- address
- progress
- express
- presents
- requests
- excess
- protests
- contents
- ss
- assess
- possess
- segments
- distress
- amen
- impress
- prevents
- confess
- commenced
Show 8 more
- ls
- contests
- ts
- suppress
- recess
- condensed
- finesse
- contends
3 syllables
- represents
- nonetheless
- ins
- supplements
- ems
4+ syllables
- nevertheless
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Questions
- What rhymes with defense?
- The closest perfect rhymes for defense are sense, hence, cents, fence, dense, tense, pence, spence, whence and thence. There are 22 in all, grouped by syllables on this page.
- How many syllables are in defense?
- Defense has 2 syllables. The second syllable is stressed.
- What are some near rhymes for defense?
- Near rhymes keep the vowel sound but change the consonants, which is often what a lyric needs. For defense, try when, then, men, yes and less.
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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).