Rhyming dictionary
Words that rhyme with expensive
Expensive has 3 syllables. The second syllable is stressed. There are 11 perfect rhymes and 80 near rhymes below, grouped by syllables.
Top rhymes for expensive: pensive, extensive, offensive, defensive, intensive, comprehensive, inexpensive, apprehensive.
Perfect rhymes for expensive
112 syllables
- pensive
3 syllables
- extensive
- offensive
- defensive
- intensive
4+ syllables
- comprehensive
- inexpensive
- apprehensive
- inoffensive
- hypertensive
- counteroffensive
Near rhymes for expensive
80Same vowel sound, different consonants. Closest-sounding first.
2 syllables
- senses
- fences
- census
- dresses
- stresses
- presses
- pencils
- messes
- guesses
- blesses
- tresses
- yeses
- tennis
- pencil
- lenses
- menace
- trenches
- benches
- senseless
- ensign
3 syllables
- impressive
- progressive
- aggressive
- excessive
- incentive
- successive
- preventive
- oppressive
- expressive
- obsessive
- depressive
- possessive
- repressive
- regressive
- recessive
- offensives
- expenses
- defenses
- offenses
- commences
- pretenses
- dispenses
- addresses
- consensus
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- successes
- expresses
- possesses
- progresses
- progressives
- attentive
- antennas
- inventive
- utensils
- confesses
- excesses
- assesses
- impresses
- suppresses
- compresses
- caresses
- depresses
- professes
- oppresses
- obsesses
- distresses
- digresses
- incentives
- antenna
- contentious
- forensics
- pretentious
- defenseless
- sienna
4+ syllables
- unimpressive
- counteroffensives
- inattentive
- disincentive
- coalesces
- influenza
- conscientious
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Questions
- What rhymes with expensive?
- The closest perfect rhymes for expensive are pensive, extensive, offensive, defensive, intensive, comprehensive, inexpensive, apprehensive, inoffensive and hypertensive. There are 11 in all, grouped by syllables on this page.
- How many syllables are in expensive?
- Expensive has 3 syllables. The second syllable is stressed.
- What are some near rhymes for expensive?
- Near rhymes keep the vowel sound but change the consonants, which is often what a lyric needs. For expensive, try senses, fences, census, dresses and stresses.
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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).