How to spell rhyme

Rhyme is spelled R-H-Y-M-E.

hear itrhyme/raɪm/nounSilent and tricky

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."

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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