what rhymes with popular?

Answer 1

http://www.rhymezone.com/

Answer 2

What Rhymes With Popular

Answer 3

Take a look at the following link. Some of the rhymes are better than others...

Answer 4

Singular
Secular

Answer 5

There is no "PERFECT" rhyme for popular -- a perfect rhyme is defined as one in which ALL the sounds from the vowel of the accented syllable to the end of the words are identical. So a perfect rhyme for this word would have to end with the sound /OPular/ (that is, with these sounds, if not the letters, and with the same syllable accented).

Incidentally, note that this means there are MANY words ending in "lar" or even "ular" that do NOT rhyme with your word, because the accented syllable does not match.

BUT there are a number of "NEAR rhymes" which will work very nicely. The best options are words where all the VOWELS match from the accented one on (called "full assonance"), the final consonant or consonant cluster matches ("final consonance") and and other consonants are as close as possible.

So, in this case you want words that end with the pattern /oCular/ or /oCuCar/ (with "C" here standing for ANY consonant or consonant cluster)

Also, note that the sounds that are closest to the "p" of "-op" are B, V, F, and TH (in roughly that order of preference), which are formed at the same place in the mouth (with or near the lips in this case). So these are the very best choices, if available.

Incidentally, note two things about the U in "popular"
a) it takes a "y-" sound at the beginning
b) it does not make a specific "U"-sound, but is an unaccented almost swallowed vowel-sound, that might be made by any other vowel

Here are some that work, roughly in order from the closest/'best' matches. (Most of these have final "lar", but you can use ones without the "L"):

globular
ovular (and related forms with prefixes - anovular, biovular, monovular)

modular, nodular

jocular, locular (+ unilocular),
ocular (+ binocular, monocular)

zonular
consular
oscular

tonsillar (the i makes the same sound as the u of popular, though it lacks the "y-" sound)

words ending with -ometer:
speedometer, odometer, spectrometer (and about 90 others!)

vomiter, conifer, moniker, profiter, promiser solider, stolider, cottager, homager, onager (Oliver -I usually don't list proper names!)


The following are also possible, IF you pronounce them as having THREE syllables, not two,which will not always work. (E.g., you pronounce "gobbler" like "gobble" plus the additional syllable "-er")

boggler, bottler, cobbler, coddler, fondler, gobbler, goggler, groveler, hobbler, jostler, modeler, mollycoddler, mottler, nobbler, ostler, throttler, toddler, toggler, wobbler


Now it is POSSIBLE that, in certain instances you can get away with a word that follows the pattern given above, except that the accented vowel is a little different... (This depends for instance on the type of poetry you're writing -- humorous verse tends to be more tolerant, etc) These are not nearly as good, but again, at times they will work.

That would give you words like these:

*with short u ["uh"]. (This is the best option, because it matches the "ah" sound of the o in "POPular")
jugular

*with short a (as in 'cat')
alular fabular, facular, granular, hamular, macular, oracular, pabular, papular, piacular, planular, radular, scapular, spatular, spectacular, spiracular, tabernacular, tabular, tentacular, vernacular

*with short /ar/ or /or/ [the r changes the vowel sound a bit]:
arbiter, orbiter

*with long u
cupular, lunular, plumular, tubular, tumular, uvular

Answer 6

regular
particular
spectacular
irregular
molecular

Answer 7

without her
see to her
with a burr
no to fur
.... and so on and so on

Answer 8

occular

Answer 9

binnocular

Answer 10

spectacular