What rhymes with "Leaf"?

Question

Does anything rhyme with "leaf" besides "beef"?

Answer 1

The rhymezone answer list is not all that helpful, because a large part of it is made up of rare surnames (not likely to be very useful when you need a rhyme!) I would also omit the multiple syllable one's that are simply phrases ending with words already listed.

That leaves us with a list like this:

brief, chief, fief, grief, lief, reef, sheaf, thief
belief, massif, motif, relief

Then you can add in the forms based on these that either add prefixes or add another word to form compounds. Fore example: debrief, disbelief, unbelief, sneak thief

That about does it for the useful PERFECT rhymes. But, in fact, there are a number of very good NEAR rhymes, that exactly match the long e of "leaf" and come very close to matching the final /f/. Many of these will work very nicely in poetry.


Here's a list of possible near rhymes, beginning with words that are the closest:

heath, sheath, teeth, wreath, beneath

cease(d), decease(d), fleece(d), geese, grease(d), lease(d), niece, peace, piece(d), caprice, decrease(d), increase(d), obese, police(d), release(d)

hashish, leash, niche [if pronounced "neesh"], quiche, sheesh

beast. east, feast, least, priest, yeast

cleave, eave, eve, grieve, heave, leave, peeve, sleeve, weave, achieve, conceive, deceive, naive, perceive, receive, relieve

breathe, seethe, sheathe, teethe

beach, bleach, each, leach, peach, preach, reach, speech, teach, impeach

Answer 2

1 syllable:
beef, brief, chief, fief, graef, graefe, graeff, grefe, greif, greiff, grief, keef, keefe, keeffe, kief, knief, leif, lief, naef, neef, reef, reif, reiff, rief, seif, seife, sheaf, stief, thief

2 syllables:
belief, corn beef, debrief, ground beef, hafif, in brief, massif, matif, mccleaf, motif, o'keefe, o'keeffe, relief, roast beef, saif, sharif, sneak thief, vancleef

3 syllables:
arab chief, bas-relief, bully beef, cattle thief, coral reef, cut of beef, disbelief, false belief, fire chief, half relief, high relief, legal brief, low relief, police chief, side of beef, strong belief, tribal chief

4 syllables:
barrier reef, indian chief

5 syllables:
commander in chief, psychotic belief, religious belief

6 syllables:
erroneous belief

Answer 3

belief, disbelief, lief, relief, brief, chief, debrief, fief, grief, Keef, kief, massif, motif, reef, Reif, Seif, Sharif, sheaf, thief.

Answer 4

reef as in barrior reef

Answer 5

reef, chief

Answer 6

relief
belief
chief
thief
beef