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Words that rhyme with tells

Tells has 1 syllable. There are 31 perfect rhymes and 80 near rhymes below, grouped by syllables.

Top rhymes for tells: cells, wells, sells, smells, shells, bells, spells, yells.

Perfect rhymes for tells

31

1 syllable

  • cells
  • wells
  • sells
  • smells
  • shells
  • bells
  • spells
  • yells
  • swells
  • gels
  • dwells
  • belles
  • fells
  • ells

2 syllables

  • hotels
  • rebels
  • cartels
  • excels
  • compels
  • motels
  • pastels
  • propels
  • farewells
  • repels
  • lapels
  • gazelles
  • dispels
  • resells
  • outsells
  • misspells

3 syllables

  • organelles

Near rhymes for tells

80

Same vowel sound, different consonants. Closest-sounding first.

1 syllable

  • there's
  • shares
  • tears
  • cares
  • bears
  • stairs
  • prayers
  • pairs
  • where's
  • wears
  • chairs
  • theirs
  • hairs
  • squares
  • scares
  • fares
  • airs
  • heirs
  • fairs
  • stares
  • flares
  • dares
  • swears
  • wares
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  • pears
  • spares
  • mares
  • hares
  • snares
  • bares
  • glares
  • pares
  • errs
  • blares
  • as
  • well
  • tell
  • says
  • else
  • hell
  • sell
  • cell
  • fell
  • bell
  • smell
  • shell
  • spell
  • yell
  • gel
  • mel
  • belle
  • shelves
  • dell
  • swell

2 syllables

  • affairs
  • repairs
  • upstairs
  • compares
  • downstairs
  • declares
  • prepares
  • impairs
  • despairs
  • ensnares
  • themselves
  • hotel
  • rebel
  • intel
  • farewell
  • yourselves
  • excel
  • noel
  • motel

3 syllables

  • billionaires
  • millionaires
  • questionnaires
  • unawares
  • ourselves
  • personnel

4+ syllables

  • multimillionaires

Questions

What rhymes with tells?
The closest perfect rhymes for tells are cells, wells, sells, smells, shells, bells, spells, yells, swells and gels. There are 31 in all, grouped by syllables on this page.
How many syllables are in tells?
Tells has 1 syllable.
What are some near rhymes for tells?
Near rhymes keep the vowel sound but change the consonants, which is often what a lyric needs. For tells, try there's, shares, tears, cares and bears.

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).