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How to spell rhyme

What it means: A word that ends with the same sound as another.

In a sentence: The cat made a rhyme with the word "time." ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as ryhme or rime.

Same family: rhymes, rhyming, rhymed, rhymer, rhythm. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Rhyme” comes from Old French *rime*, meaning “series” or “meter”; the spelling with “rh” was influenced by the unrelated Greek word *rhythmos* (“rhythm”), which is why this simple word has such a tricky beginning.

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