Rhymes Here is a list of the words that rhyme with the word clamshell.This is ordered by best match. Changing color means the start of the next best set of words.
2 syllable words
Near RhymesHere is a list of the words that nearly rhyme with the word clamshell.
2 syllable words

almost

balanced

ailing

along

alines

alongs

alums

balance

barbell

barbel

belling

balloons

belong

bethel

belongs

cantel

cartel

abele

blemish

blanket

blankly

blancmange

blankets

blowing

bluebell

challenge

dispel

boiling

bolling

bowling

blueing

bluing

billing

capelle

challenged

carvel

calling

ceiling

billings

billions

ceilings

clannish

clanging

farewell

chilling

clumsy

climax

doorbell

excel

coiling

clinches

clincher

clinic

clinique

clinics

colling

collings

collins

collums

compel

dealings

cooling

culling

dealing

columns

dilling

flanges

falling

flemish

dueling

dwelling

expel

dwellings

failings

failing

feelings

flounces

feeling

fehling

filings

filing

felons

filling

fillings

felines

flimsy

cleanser

flowing

cleansers

clenches

foretell

gabel

gazelle

gallons

glances

glancing

groundswell

galling

glowing

hotel

impel

healing

holing

helmsman

hilling

lapel

klansman

jailing

keeling

kleenex

killing

killings

mailings

mailing

martel

melange

melons

morel

moselle

misspell

noel

mullens

milling

millions

outsell

nylons

oolong

pastel

plumage

planking

plankton

piling

phalanx

foiling

pilings

playing

plunger

plunges

flying

pollens

polling

pooling

propel

resell

ravel

repel

retell

railings

railing

quilling

rochelle

rebel

rollings

rolling

ruelle

ruling

seashell

sailing

scaling

rulings

salons

saloons

scallions

schooling

schillings

schilling

seeling

shelling

silence

shellings

shilling

shillings

slinger

skilling

skillings

slinky

sullens

swelling

tailing

talons

tailings

telling

tlingit

tooling

trowel

unwell

varvel

veiling

poling

valence

villains

volumes

walling

whaling

wheeling

willing

woolens

yelling

pylons

yokel

5 syllable words
6 syllable words

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Words that rhyme with the word clamshell

Welcome to the Rhyme Finder! This rhyming dictionary allows users to explore rhymes for any given word. This includes rhymes based on syllables, near rhymes, and more.


How to use the rhyming dictionary

Enter your "starter" word in the FIND RHYMES input box, and click search. It's really that simple! We separate perfect rhymes (near the top) from the imperfect rhymes (toward the bottom). In your rhyming results, colors descend based on the best rhyme. Once the color changes, you will notice the results reset back into alphabetical order. Click on any of the results for the word's definition, part of speech, use in Scrabble, and more. Please note that many of our results are proper nound or slang. While we may not store definitions for all of these words, we can direct you to the Google results for that word.


Perfect Rhymes

Perfect rhymes are just what they sound like. No pun intended! Think of perfect rhymes as words which definitively rhyme. Words that most people would not question. Here are some examples:

  • Cat and Hat
  • Head and Red
  • Egg and Beg
  • Soap and Hope
  • True and Blue

Imperfect Rhymes

Near rhymes, otherwise known as imperfect rhymes, are words that sound the same but are not perfect rhymes. Having trouble deciding if a word is a perfect or imperfect rhyme? Here are some examples:

  • Cat and Bad
  • Head and Mud
  • Egg and Peck
  • Soap and Chap
  • True and Cure

Using Rhymes

Rhymes are most useful in creating lyrics, but they can also be used as a tool to memorize. It is a powerful mnemonic device. This is why song lyrics can be so easy to remember! It's also why rhymes are a great study tool for memorizing! Use this tool to help write poetry, win rhyme games, write a rap song, create lyrics, and expand your vocabulary! Rhyming is very important in music because it creates a rhythm that further creates meaning, emotion, and feeling. It also creates an echo in the lyrics. With children, rhyming is a very important tool. Rhyming teaches children how language works, helps them understand the rhythm of language, and learn how to make predictions. In other words, rhymes teach children phrases to anticipate and rhymes enhance their memory. Within all contexts, rhyming is helpful in expanding your imagination no matter if you’re a child or an adult.

When creating lyrics, there are five types of rhymes to choose from.

  • End rhymes: rhyming of the final word of a line
  • Internal rhymes: rhyming of two words within the same line
  • Slant rhymes: near rhymes
  • Identical rhymes: use the same word at the end of each line
  • Eye rhymes: look like they rhyme but sound different

Different Types of Rhymes
  • Mascline rhymes: have a stressed syllable
  • Feminine rhymes: have a stressless syllable.

Ready for a challenge? Try to come up with rhymes for these surprising words that just aren’t very rhymy. Check them with our dictionary! Examples of tough rhymes:

  • Month
  • Silver
  • Bulb
  • Wolf
  • Husband
  • Walrus
  • Orange

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