Does five rhyme with eye?

Answer 1

It all depends on what TYPE of "rhyme" you are after.

In everyday use, if you ask "what rhymes with 'five'?" people assume you want what is called a PERFECT rhyme. In a perfect rhyme EVERY sound in the word must match EXACTLY from the vowel of the syllable that has the accent to the end of the word.

In other words, a perfect rhyme for "eye" must be a word ending with the long /i/ sound, and that syllable must have the accent ==
You can find MANY of these at a place like rhymezone.com, simply by typing your original word in the search box (same from "five)...

A perfect rhyme for "five" must end with an accented "-ive" (and that "i" must be a "long i"), such as:
arrive, alive, contrive, hive, jive, dive, thrive
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BUT this is not the ONLY type of "rhyme". Rhyme is used for OTHER ways in which words use the same or similar sounds.

One very important type is FINAL ASSONANCE (a type of "near rhyme"), in which the VOWELS match (from the accented vowel to the end), but the consonants may not. This is what you have with "five" and "eye".

And, as a matter of fact, assonance (and other types of rhyme) are quite common in poetry, INCLUDING at the end of lines in poetry (the place we most associate with rhyme).

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Definition of "perfect rhyme:
http://www.bartleby.com/61/83/P0188300.html


My own scheme (edited from several sources) of types of rhyme:

Perfect rhyme (all sounds match from at least vowel of stressed syllable on)
* Masculine rhyme (last syllable stressed)
* Feminine rhyme (earlier syllable stressed)

* Identical rhyme (same words, different meanings)
* Rich rhyme/"rime riche" (word and its homonym , sea/see)
* Macaronic rhyme (words from different languages)

Near rhyme (half, slant, approximate, off, oblique)
* Assonance (matches only vowels - update/subway)
* Consonance (matches only consonants - miss/mass)

* Light line (stressed syllable with secondary stress)
* Wrenched rhyme (stressed syllable with unstressed)

Answer 2

Even if you make the words plural they won't rhyme, they'll only sound close. The "v" sound in five makes it not rhyme with eye. The other answers would show you what rhymes with five and what rhymes with eye.

Answer 3

No it doesn't but you know that by now. If you are into poetry your best bet is to buy a rhyming dictionary. they are fantastic. I use one all the time.
Mine is The Scholastic Rhyming Dictionary,,by Sue Young.
Good luck

Answer 4

No, it doesn't. Eye rhymes with sigh, die, lie, etc. Five rhymes with hive, drive, dive, and so on.

Answer 5

no, five rhymes with hive, dive, jive, strive and clive....
my, by, sly, fly and die rhymes with eye

Answer 6

no it doesn't rhyme try something else

Answer 7

If you make both words plural.
Fives
Eyes

Answer 8

it's a bit of a stretch

Answer 9

no, bye, cry, dye, die,fly, guy,hi,lie,lye,my,pie,sigh,rye,tie,why,are some

Answer 10

Sure it does... If your Chinese, and new to the English language !