“Month” has no perfect rhyme in common English. That ending, /ʌnθ/ from the stressed vowel onward, occurs in no other common word, and a perfect rhyme has to match it exactly. Writers rhyme it one way: on the stressed vowel with a matching final consonant (ones, guns and runs).
Spoken aloud, “month” is /mʌnθ/, respelled MUHNTH, one syllable. With a single syllable there is nothing in front of the stress, so a rhyme has to match the word in full.
“Month” has no perfect rhyme in common use; the nearest matches are 21 near rhymes, one rhyme on its final syllable and six consonance endings.
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What Rhymes With Month
No common English word rhymes with “month” on every sound. Seventh comes closest on the final syllable, and ones and guns match the stressed vowel with a consonant of the same kind.
- Seventh
- Ones
- Guns
Near Rhymes With Month
Among the 21 near rhymes for “month”, the most common ending is /ʌn/, as in one and won. A near rhyme for “month” differs from its /ʌnθ/ ending by a single sound, which is what separates it from a perfect rhyme.
Near Rhymes For Month Like One And Won
One, won and done share the ending /ʌn/, which is the ending of “month” without its final /θ/.
Hon /ɑn/ is a looser near rhyme for “month”, on an ending no other common word shares.
Consonance Rhymes With Month
In consonance, two words have the same stressed vowel and end on consonants of the same kind, and this is the nearest match any single word has to “month”. The endings are listed from the nearest match to the loosest, and 46 words on six endings qualify.
Consonance For Month Like Ones And Guns
Ones, guns and runs end in /ʌnz/, on the stressed vowel of “month” and a consonant of the same kind.
- Ones
- Guns
- Runs
- Sons
- Tons
- Nuns
- Buns
- Tonnes
Consonance For Month Like Lunch And Bunch
Words ending in /ʌntʃ/ share the stressed vowel of “month” and end on a related consonant.
- Lunch
- Bunch
- Punch
- Hunch
- Crunch
- Brunch
- Munch
Consonance For Month Like Nuts And Guts
The /ʌts/ ending appears in eight words, each pronounced with the stressed vowel of “month”.
- Nuts
- Guts
- Cuts
- Shuts
- Butts
- Whats
- Doughnuts
- Donuts
Consonance For Month Like Comes And Becomes
Against “month”, the /ʌmz/ ending matches the stressed vowel and differs after it, as in comes, becomes and drums.
- Comes
- Becomes
- Drums
- Thumbs
- Bums
- Hums
- Crumbs
- Sums
Consonance For Month Like Bucks And Sucks
Bucks, sucks and trucks end in /ʌks/, on the stressed vowel of “month” and a consonant of the same kind.
- Bucks
- Sucks
- Trucks
- Ducks
- Tux
- Deluxe
- Lux
- Shucks
Consonance For Month Like Drugs And Bugs
Words ending in /ʌɡz/ share the stressed vowel of “month” and end on a related consonant.
- Drugs
- Bugs
- Thugs
- Hugs
- Slugs
- Mugs
- Plugs
Does One Rhyme With Month
People often ask whether these words rhyme with “month”. Only the sounds from the stressed vowel on count, so two words can share four letters and still not rhyme.
| Word | Rhymes With Month | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| One | Near rhyme | The ending of "month" without its final /θ/, near enough for the end of a line |
| Hon | Near rhyme | The vowel /ɑ/ in place of the vowel of "month", and no final /θ/, near enough for the end of a line |
| Ninth | Consonance only | Same stressed vowel, and the final consonant is of the same kind rather than the same sound |
| Seventh | No | Only the unstressed last syllable matches, and the stressed syllable is different |
Animals, Body Parts And Foods That Rhyme With Month
Meaning has no effect on whether two words rhyme, so the rhymes for “month” name every kind of thing, including ducks and bugs among animals. Nothing among colors, flowers, cities and places rhymes with “month” at all.
| Kind Of Word | Rhymes |
|---|---|
| Animals | Ducks, bugs |
| Body Parts | Buns, thumbs |
| Foods | Lunch, brunch, donuts |
| Numbers | One, ones |
The Ending Sound In Month
A rhyme for “month” has to end in /ʌnθ/, the sound formed by the stressed vowel /ʌ/ followed by /n/ and /θ/. No other common word ends in /ʌnθ/, so every rhyme for “month” is a near rhyme that matches part of that ending.
Words That Look Like Month But Do Not Rhyme
“Month” is spelled with the ending -nth, as are seventh, ninth, tenth and labyrinth, yet none of those words rhymes with it. Seventh ends in /ɛvənθ/ and ninth ends in /aɪnθ/, whereas “month” ends in /ʌnθ/. They end on /nθ/, as “month” does, so the match is partial: the closing consonants agree and the vowel is different.
| Word | Ending Sound | Closing Sound Shared With Month |
|---|---|---|
| Seventh | /ɛvənθ/ | /nθ/ |
| Ninth | /aɪnθ/ | /nθ/ |
| Tenth | /ɛnθ/ | /nθ/ |
| Labyrinth | /æbɚɪnθ/ | /nθ/ |
| Hyacinth | /aɪəsɪnθ/ | /nθ/ |
| Eleventh | /ilɛvənθ/ | /nθ/ |
| Thirteenth | /inθ/ | /nθ/ |
| Millionth | /ɪljənθ/ | /nθ/ |
Rhyme Schemes With Month
“Month” fits the common stanza forms through near rhymes and consonance, since it has no perfect rhyme. When a letter repeats, those lines end on the same rhyme sound.
| Scheme | Line endings | How The Lines Pair |
|---|---|---|
| ABAB | Month / one / seventh / won | With no perfect rhyme available, the consonance pair ends the B lines and the final-syllable rhyme ends the A lines. |
FAQs
No common English word rhymes perfectly with “month”, so the closest matches are near rhymes such as one, won, done and someone. A perfect rhyme would need the whole ending /ʌnθ/ of “month”, and no other everyday word has that sound.
Everyday things that rhyme with “month” include gun, sun, shotgun and bun. All of them are near rhymes, because no common noun repeats the full ending /ʌnθ/.
“Month” has 21 near rhymes in common English and no perfect rhyme. They have four different ending sounds, and the most frequent is /ʌn/.
“Month” ends in the same letters as ninth, tenth and labyrinth, yet none of them rhymes with it. They are pronounced with a different stressed vowel from the /ʌ/ heard in “month”, so the shared spelling says nothing about the sound.
