A perfect rhyme for “tired” ends in /aɪɚd/, the sound from its stressed vowel to the end of the word. Near rhymes differ by a single sound, which is enough to end a line beside “tired” without matching it exactly. Most of the near rhymes end in one of two sounds, /aɪzd/ or /aɪnd/.
Spoken aloud, “tired” is /ˈtaɪɚd/, respelled TY-urd, two syllables with the stress on the first. A rhyme has to match from that stressed syllable to the end, and the syllables before it are free to differ.
“Tired” has 13 perfect rhymes and 84 near rhymes in common use; fired, hired and required are the most common.
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What Rhymes With Tired
Fired, hired, required and retired rhyme with “tired”, each one ending in /aɪɚd/ from the stressed vowel on. A word that changes one sound of that ending, such as surprised or find, reads as a near rhyme instead.
- Fired
- Hired
- Required
- Retired
- Inspired
- Wired
- Acquired
- Admired
- Desired
- Conspired
- Backfired
- Inquired
Perfect Rhymes With Tired
Three-Syllable Rhymes With Tired
- Required
- Retired
- Inspired
- Acquired
- Admired
- Desired
- Conspired
- Backfired
- Inquired
- Transpired
Two-Syllable Rhymes With Tired
- Fired
- Hired
- Wired
Near Rhymes With Tired
“Tired” has 84 near rhymes in common English, and more of them end in /aɪzd/ than in any other sound, like surprised and realized. Find and kind follow with the ending /aɪnd/. A near rhyme for “tired” differs from its /aɪɚd/ ending by a single sound, which is what separates it from a perfect rhyme.
Near Rhymes For Tired Like Surprised And Realized
Words such as surprised, realized and recognized end in /aɪzd/, which is /z/ in place of the /ɚ/ of “tired”.
- Surprised
- Realized
- Recognized
- Organized
- Realised
- Compromised
- Advised
- Authorized
- Civilized
- Paralyzed
- Recognised
- Apologized
- Disguised
- Analyzed
- Baptized
- Unauthorized
Tired Rhymes With An -ind Ending: Find And Kind
Among the words ending in /aɪnd/ are find, kind and mind, each said with /n/ in place of the /ɚ/ of “tired”.
Fire And Entire As Near Rhymes For Tired
For fire, entire and liar the ending is /aɪɚ/, the ending of “tired” without its final /d/.
- Fire
- Entire
- Liar
- Higher
- Desire
- Hire
- Wire
- Require
- Gunfire
- Tire
- Sire
- Prior
- Choir
- Buyer
- Dryer
- Acquire
Words Like Child And Wild That Rhyme Loosely With Tired
Child, wild and filed rhyme loosely on /aɪld/, which is /l/ in place of the /ɚ/ of “tired”.
- Child
- Wild
- Filed
- Smiled
- Mild
- Grandchild
- Exiled
- Piled
- Riled
- Reconciled
- Compiled
- Profiled
Tired Rhymes Ending In -ived, Like Arrived And Survived
Words ending in /aɪvd/ include arrived, survived and deprived, each with /v/ in place of the /ɚ/ of “tired”.
- Arrived
- Survived
- Deprived
- Revived
- Derived
- Short-lived
- Dived
- Thrived
- Contrived
Tired Rhymes With A -ribed Ending: Described And Prescribed
Pronounced /aɪbd/ at the end, described, prescribed and bribed have /b/ in place of the /ɚ/ of “tired”.
- Described
- Prescribed
- Bribed
- Inscribed
- Transcribed
Retire /aɪr/, climbed /aɪmd/, lived /ɪvd/ and obliged /aɪdʒd/ are looser near rhymes for “tired”, each on an ending of its own.
Does Find Rhyme With Tired
People often ask whether these words rhyme with “tired”. Only the sounds from the stressed vowel on count, so two words can share four letters and still not rhyme.
| Word | Rhymes With Tired | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| Fired | Yes | Perfect rhyme, matching every sound from the stressed vowel on |
| Hired | Yes | Perfect rhyme, matching every sound from the stressed vowel on |
| Required | Yes | Perfect rhyme, matching every sound from the stressed vowel on |
| Find | Near rhyme | /n/ in place of the /ɚ/ of "tired", near enough for the end of a line |
| Child | Near rhyme | /l/ in place of the /ɚ/ of "tired", near enough for the end of a line |
| Coward | Consonance only | Same stressed vowel, and the final consonant is of the same kind rather than the same sound |
| Heard | No | Only the unstressed last syllable matches, and the stressed syllable is different |
| Scared | No | Same letters at the end, but said /ɛrd/ |
| Red | No | Same letters at the end, but said /ɛd/ |
Near Rhymes For Tired By Word Class
Counted by part of speech, the near rhymes for “tired” number 26 nouns, 53 verbs and five adjectives. Find is both a noun and a verb, so it is listed once, under the part of speech it takes more often. As “tired” is a verb, verb rhymes such as surprised, realized and recognized fit the same place in a sentence.
| Word Class | Near Rhymes |
|---|---|
| Nouns | Find, kind, mind, behind, wind, blind, mankind, grind, bind, fire, entire, liar |
| Verbs | Surprised, realized, recognized, organized, realised, compromised, advised, authorized, civilized, paralyzed, recognised, apologized |
| Adjectives | Unauthorized, higher, mild, short-lived, dire |
Positive Words That Rhyme With Tired
Inspired, admired, kind and smiled rhyme with “tired” and have a positive meaning.
| Tone | Rhymes |
|---|---|
| Positive | Inspired, admired, kind, smiled, thrived |
Less Common Rhymes For Tired
These less common words rhyme with “tired” on every sound from the stressed vowel on, among them hardwired, uninspired and rewired. They are standard English but rare in everyday writing, so readers meet them mostly in verse.
- Hardwired
- Uninspired
- Rewired
- Rehired
The Two-Syllable Ending In Tired
The rhyme sound of “tired” is /aɪɚd/, which consists of the stressed vowel /aɪ/ followed by /ɚ/ and /d/. Common English has 13 other words with this ending, including fired, hired and required. With two syllables in the ending, a rhyming word must reproduce the stressed vowel and each sound that follows.
Words That Look Like Tired But Do Not Rhyme
In spelling, “tired” matches scared, red, hundred and figured on the final -red, but the pronunciation differs in every one of them. Scared and prepared end in /ɛrd/ and red ends in /ɛd/, whereas “tired” ends in /aɪɚd/. These words and “tired” have the same closing /d/, so a pairing with any of them is a near rhyme rather than a perfect rhyme.
| Word | Ending Sound | Closing Sound Shared With Tired |
|---|---|---|
| Scared | /ɛrd/ | /d/ |
| Red | /ɛd/ | /d/ |
| Hundred | /ʌndɚd/ | /d/ |
| Figured | /ɪɡjɚd/ | /d/ |
| Murdered | /ɝdɚd/ | /d/ |
| Prepared | /ɛrd/ | /d/ |
| Disappeared | /ɪrd/ | /d/ |
| Ordered | /ɔrdɚd/ | /d/ |
Rhyme Schemes With Tired
With fired and hired as its rhymes, “tired” fits the common stanza forms. Lines with the same letter end on the same rhyme sound.
| Scheme | Line endings | How The Lines Pair |
|---|---|---|
| AABB | Tired / fired / hired / required | Two couplets in a row, each pair rhyming on consecutive lines. |
| ABAB | Tired / surprised / fired / realized | Alternating lines, with the near rhymes on the B lines and the perfect pair on the A lines. |
| ABCB | … / tired / … / fired | Only the second and fourth lines rhyme, as in the ballad stanza and in most hymns. |
Using Tired Rhymes In Poems And Songs
In a couplet ending on “tired”, the nearest rhymes are fired and hired. In a longer line or song verse, required and retired fit the line ending instead.
| Kind Of Line | Line-Ending Pairs | How They Match |
|---|---|---|
| Couplet with matching line endings | Tired / fired, tired / hired, tired / wired | Both words end in /aɪɚd/ and have the same number of syllables |
| Longer line or song verse | Tired / required, tired / retired, tired / inspired | The longer word ends in the same /aɪɚd/, with one more syllable before it |
| Near rhyme in a lyric | Tired / fire, tired / entire, tired / liar | Same stressed vowel /aɪɚ/, one sound of the ending differs |
FAQs
The most common words that rhyme with “tired” in everyday English are fired, hired, required and retired. Beyond those, inspired, wired, acquired, admired, desired and conspired rhyme with it as well. All of them end in /aɪɚd/, which is the part of “tired” a rhyme has to match.
Things you can name that rhyme with “tired” include entire, wire and tire. They are near rhymes, since no everyday object name ends in the full /aɪɚd/ of “tired”.
In common English, 97 words rhyme with “tired” once near rhymes are counted alongside perfect ones. Of these, 13 are perfect rhymes with its whole /aɪɚd/ ending, and 84 are near rhymes with one sound of it different.
Near rhymes for “tired” include fire, liar, higher, desire, hire and require. All of them share the /aɪɚ/ vowel of “tired” and end in different sounds after it. Writers choose these looser matches when the meaning of the line comes first.
The three-syllable words that rhyme with “tired” include inspired, acquired, admired, desired and conspired. Only the last syllable has to match “tired”, and in each of these it is /aɪɚd/ exactly.
“Tired” ends in the same letters as scared, red and hundred, yet none of them rhymes with it. None of them is said with the /aɪɚ/ of “tired”, and two words rhyme only when the stressed vowel is the same.
“Tired” has two syllables, said TY-urd, with the stress on the first. A rhyme for “tired” has to match every sound from that stressed syllable to the end of the word.
