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What ryhmes with Emily? or Em? or Bells?

2007-09-25 12:29:10 · 5 answers · asked by Jac 1 in Education & Reference Words & Wordplay

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Emily: No perfect single word rhyme. "Family" and "remedy" seem close to me. (Hey, if Freddie Mercury could say "A built in remedy / for Khrushchev and Kennedy", it works :-)

Em: Click this link:

http://www.rhymezone.com/r/rhyme.cgi?Word=em&typeofrhyme=perfect&org1=syl&org2=l

Bells:

http://www.rhymezone.com/r/rhyme.cgi?Word=bells&typeofrhyme=perfect&org1=syl&org2=l

2007-09-25 12:39:21 · answer #1 · answered by Gary B 5 · 0 1

The rhyme site links already provided will probably handle "bells" and "em" fairly well, since they each have several "PERFECT rhymes" (in which the corresponding sounds ALL match exactly).

But unfortunately they do NOT help with "ALL your rhyming needs". Specifically, they do NOT help when there is no PERFECT rhyme, as is the case with "Emily"

For this, you need near rhymes, and those can be trickier to find (though poets use them all the time.. nothing wrong with doing so if they work in the context you need them in)

For decent "near rhymes, I generally recommend those in which the necessary VOWELS match, and MOST of the consonants do, with any other consonants as close as possible. (Note, for instance, that /m/ and /n/ are very close, and also that sounds like /b/ and /d/ work pretty well as substitutes for /m/.)

Thus, something like "family" would not normally be a first choice (though in this case the /a/ and /e/ are pretty close, so it might work fine).

Try:

reverie
headily, readily, steadily
heavily, reveille
heavenly, penalty

amenity, serenity, seventy
brevity, levity, longevity
pedigree

You find some more than will work by using the search box on the following page:
http://www.nearrhymes.com

2007-09-26 05:34:04 · answer #2 · answered by bruhaha 7 · 0 0

Em - them, hem, gem. Em is a gem.

Emily - family (bit of a stretch).

Bells - wells, gels, Nells.

2007-09-25 12:39:01 · answer #3 · answered by ghouly05 7 · 0 0

For all your rhyming needs:
http://www.rhymezone.com/

-MM

2007-09-25 12:38:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

http://www.rhymer.com

2007-09-25 12:38:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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