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40+ Words That Rhyme With Essay

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• Word : A word that rhymes with essay.
• Rhyming Percentage: How closely the word rhymes with essay. A 100 means perfect rhyme while an 80 or 90 means a close rhyme. When this column says "Slant Rhyme," the word only rhymes if said in a certain way.
• Syllables: The number of syllables in the word.
• Type: The type of word.

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Words That Rhyme With ESSAY

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• Most Common ASC
• Most Common DESC

Words (138)

Phrases (2), 2 syllables, words (562).

• straightway
• bluish-gray
• dapple-gray
• off-broadway
• present-day
• bluish-grey
• dapple-grey

Phrases (144)

• ash wednesday
• cog railway
• girl friday
• good friday
• palm sunday
• rack railway
• shrove tuesday
• bastille day
• double play
• judgment day
• mean solar day
• morgan le fay
• out and away
• pancake day
• passion play
• porcelain clay
• quarter day
• red-letter day
• roentgen ray
• shadow play
• square away
• thunder bay
• twelfth day
• working day
• corps de ballet
• transfer rna
• boulder clay
• father's day
• lord's day
• mother's day
• quai d'orsay
• saint's day
• st john's day
• cor anglais
• green beret
• karl scheele
• sea lamprey

3 Syllables

Words (459).

• straightaway
• carriageway
• counterplay
• entranceway
• steerageway
• soubriquets
• papier-mache
• blackish-gray
• charcoal-gray
• dappled-gray
• greenish-gray
• half-holiday
• oxford-gray
• reddish-gray
• silver-gray
• thrown-away
• whit-tuesday
• yellow-gray
• blackish-grey
• charcoal-grey
• dappled-grey
• greenish-grey
• oxford-grey
• paper-mache
• pousse-cafe
• silver-grey
• yellow-grey
• fiancailles
• pointtillist
• clanjamfray
• brownish-gray

Phrases (221)

• air attache
• advent sunday
• bank holiday
• cable railway
• fat tuesday
• maundy thursday
• passion sunday
• saint lawrence seaway
• scenic railway
• action replay
• all the way
• armistice day
• ascension day
• baking tray
• bleaching clay
• break of day
• buzzards bay
• calendar day
• cheese tray
• chesapeake bay
• christmas day
• columbus day
• commonwealth day
• dominion day
• dwindle away
• electric ray
• first of may
• football play
• four-act play
• go a long way
• groundhog day
• hangzhou bay
• hell to pay
• hit the hay
• instant replay
• keyboard tray
• lead astray
• lucius clay
• lucius d. clay
• midsummer day
• miracle play
• montego bay
• mystery play
• new world jay
• new york bay
• old world jay
• out of play
• passing play
• pepper spray
• piddle away
• point the way
• polling day
• prudhoe bay
• puppet play
• right of way
• robert gray
• running play
• san francisco bay
• spotted ray
• stroke play
• thanksgiving day
• thomas gray
• tooth decay
• trifle away
• triple play
• vascular ray
• veterans day
• washing day
• wedding day
• charles grey
• fish fillet
• messenger rna
• nuclear rna
• plasmid dna
• soluble rna
• holy thursday
• ordnance survey
• jumper stay
• one-act play
• whittle away
• all fools' day
• all saints' day
• all souls' day
• davy's gray
• lee's birthday
• loch achray
• midsummer's day
• potter's clay
• presidents' day
• saint valentine's day
• st martin's day
• st patrick's day
• tenzing norgay

4 Syllables

Words (236).

• companionway
• superhighway
• postholiday
• cognoscente
• microflorae
• vorticellae
• silvery-gray
• yellowish-gray
• aepyornidae
• centriscidae
• chalcididae
• chinchillidae
• chrysopidae
• dermestidae
• didelphidae
• fringillidae
• ginkgoaceae
• glossinidae
• hydromyinae
• hydrophidae
• membracidae
• myctophidae
• nephropsidae
• phasmatidae
• phthiriidae
• procyonidae
• rynchopidae
• silvery-grey
• sphyraenidae
• squatinidae
• tetraonidae
• transmigrante
• trichechidae
• trochilidae
• typhlopidae
• yellowish-grey
• drosophilae
• fenestellae
• perruquiers
• piscifaunae
• pontonniers
• rhamphothecae

Phrases (159)

• that is to say
• army attache
• double crochet
• naval attache
• single crochet
• billy sunday
• black caraway
• easter sunday
• henry steinway
• high holiday
• holy saturday
• latching relay
• legal holiday
• make headway
• moving stairway
• nerve pathway
• remembrance sunday
• week from monday
• whitsun monday
• whitsun tuesday
• abu qir bay
• actinic ray
• african gray
• barter away
• baseball play
• basketball play
• beaver away
• biscayne bay
• break of the day
• breaking away
• butterfly ray
• call it a day
• candlemas day
• cape cod bay
• cassius clay
• cathode ray
• clarence day
• cow-nosed ray
• cownose ray
• dramatic play
• dwindling away
• eating away
• fading away
• far and away
• flaminian way
• frighten away
• fritter away
• frivol away
• galveston bay
• great white way
• guy fawkes day
• have it away
• high holy day
• in a bad way
• in a broad way
• independence day
• infrared ray
• judgement day
• leading astray
• liquid crystal display
• major fast day
• massachusetts bay
• medullary ray
• memorial day
• michaelmas day
• minor fast day
• monterey bay
• morality play
• moreton bay
• narragansett bay
• penobscot bay
• rate of pay
• rogation day
• roll in the hay
• roundabout way
• san diego bay
• sidereal day
• solar array
• spirit away
• squeeze play
• squirrel away
• the whole way
• throwing away
• turning away
• victoria day
• wanton away
• wasting away
• wearing away
• jean piaget
• cheese souffle
• claude monet
• cochon de lait
• modern ballet
• noncoding dna
• pas de calais
• second earl grey
• strait of calais
• template rna
• divided highway
• state highway
• trinity sunday
• john le carre
• alpha decay
• edna millay
• running away
• time of day
• victory day
• caffe latte
• april fools' day
• bay of biscay
• cable tramway
• davis' birthday
• day-after-day
• dual carriageway
• ernest solvay
• flame tokay
• holy innocents' day
• innocents' day
• lincoln's birthday
• lord macaulay
• new year's day
• out-of-the-way
• patriot's day
• roughtail stingray
• saint patrick's day
• veterans' day
• acceptor rna
• african grey
• memory cache
• alfred binet
• anne bronte
• aphis fabae
• brosme brosme
• cebu maguey
• chili con carne
• chlorophyll a
• coleus blumei
• cor pulmonale
• creme brulee
• fernand leger
• genus cakile
• genus crambe
• grand marnier
• joseph joffre
• kingdom plantae
• ovis vignei
• peter lorre
• pieris rapae
• python sebae
• roman a clef
• tycho brahe
• vena portae
• yucca whipplei

5 Syllables

Words (144).

• entomofaunae
• acanthuridae
• accipitridae
• amentiferae
• amphisbaenidae
• amphiumidae
• apterygidae
• argonautidae
• atherinidae
• bassariscidae
• belemnitidae
• bombycillidae
• bombyliidae
• caeciliidae
• caenolestidae
• callithricidae
• carchariidae
• cecidomyidae
• centropomidae
• cheloniidae
• chlorophthalmidae
• chrysochloridae
• cicindelidae
• comatulidae
• commelinidae
• coryphaenidae
• crocodylidae
• cryptobranchidae
• cuterebridae
• cynoglossidae
• dasypodidae
• desmodontidae
• dinornithidae
• diodontidae
• discoglossidae
• dracunculidae
• drosophilidae
• elephantidae
• endamoebidae
• eschrichtiidae
• exocoetidae
• fasciolidae
• fissurellidae
• flaviviridae
• forficulidae
• gelechiidae
• glareolidae
• gonorhynchidae
• heterokontae
• hexagrammidae
• hippoboscidae
• hirudinidae
• hydrobatidae
• hydrochoeridae
• hylobatidae
• kinosternidae
• lanthanotidae
• latimeridae
• liopelmidae
• littorinidae
• lymantriidae
• macropodidae
• malacanthidae
• megachilidae
• meleagrididae
• meliphagidae
• microdesmidae
• monocanthidae
• motacillidae
• musophagidae
• notonectidae
• notoryctidae
• ochotonidae
• orchestiidae
• ostraciidae
• palinuridae
• pandionidae
• pediculidae
• peramelidae
• phalangeridae
• phoeniculidae
• platanistidae
• plethodontidae
• pleuronectidae
• poeciliidae
• polynemidae
• polyodontidae
• pomacentridae
• pomatomidae
• priacanthidae
• rhincodontidae
• rhinobatidae
• saturniidae
• scarabaeidae
• scutigeridae
• steatornithidae
• struthionidae
• synodontidae
• terebellidae
• teredinidae
• tetranychidae
• tetraodontidae
• theraphosidae
• theridiidae
• togaviridae
• trachipteridae
• trichodontidae
• trombiculidae
• trombidiidae
• umbelliferae
• xantusiidae
• xenopodidae
• xenosauridae
• amphiblastulae
• globigerinae
• multigravidae
• primigravidae
• turangawaewae

Phrases (101)

• cultural attache
• peter mark roget
• anne hathaway
• battle of midway
• bistable relay
• charlotte corday
• ernest hemingway
• henry e. steinway
• impulse relay
• kingdom of norway
• michael faraday
• overhead railway
• public holiday
• st. lawrence seaway
• underground railway
• whorled caraway
• sidney poitier
• admission day
• armed forces day
• bissextile day
• christian holy day
• citizenship day
• commencement day
• decoration day
• delaware bay
• discovery day
• dual scan display
• election day
• every which way
• flat panel display
• forever and a day
• guantanamo bay
• in a heartfelt way
• inauguration day
• indurated clay
• jewish holy day
• louis harold gray
• minamata bay
• order of the day
• period of play
• queen of the may
• remembrance day
• residual clay
• robert e lee day
• rocky mountain jay
• spotted eagle ray
• tabular array
• take-home pay
• tattletale gray
• valentine day
• video display
• comedy ballet
• ieoh ming pei
• lady jane grey
• musical soiree
• recombinant dna
• tattletale grey
• computer display
• digital display
• aerial tramway
• pinot chardonnay
• st valentine's day
• washington's birthday
• classical ballet
• spiritual bouquet
• abruzzi e molise
• amicus curiae
• arriere pensee
• belo horizonte
• c. diphtheriae
• charina bottae
• charles fourier
• cinema verite
• cirsium vulgare
• class filicinae
• commedia dell'arte
• echium vulgare
• family boidae
• family gruidae
• family ipidae
• family ostreidae
• family rheidae
• francois rabelais
• hepatitis a
• hiba arborvitae
• inspector maigret
• jacques cartier
• lettre de cachet
• nolo contendere
• nord-pas-de-calais
• petit dejeuner
• pierre de terrail
• rana cascadae
• rule of cy pres
• salix cinerea
• sao tome e principe
• st. thomas and principe
• strophanthus kombe
• subclass rosidae
• thomomys bottae

6 Syllables

• tarsometatarsi
• tibiofibulae
• ailuropodidae
• amaranthaceae
• ambystomatidae
• anomalopidae
• antilocapridae
• aplodontiidae
• atrichornithidae
• balaenopteridae
• branchiobdellidae
• branchiostegidae
• branchiostomidae
• ceratodontidae
• cercopithecidae
• cynocephalidae
• cyprinodontidae
• dactylopteridae
• dendrocolaptidae
• dicotyledonae
• edaphosauridae
• gomphotheriidae
• gracilariidae
• hipposideridae
• hyperodontidae
• iguanodontidae
• indicatoridae
• laricariidae
• leptotyphlopidae
• lycopodineae
• macrorhamphosidae
• malaconotinae
• mastotermitidae
• megalosauridae
• megapodiidae
• myliobatidae
• myrmeleontidae
• odontaspididae
• opisthognathidae
• orectolobidae
• ornithorhynchidae
• osteoglossidae
• papilionoideae
• peripatopsidae
• peristediinae
• pleurobrachiidae
• polypedatidae
• potamogalidae
• pterodactylidae
• recurvirostridae
• schistosomatidae
• scomberesocidae
• scyliorhinidae
• stenopelmatidae
• tenebrionidae
• tettigoniidae
• threskiornithidae
• titanosauridae
• uranoscopidae
• ectomycorrhizae

Phrases (128)

• diagnostic assay
• capital of norway
• electrical relay
• elevated railway
• funicular railway
• interstate highway
• monostable relay
• national holiday
• nevil shute norway
• package holiday
• annunciation day
• cafeteria tray
• common european jay
• edna st. vincent millay
• exponential decay
• in a similar way
• lucius dubignon clay
• martin luther king day
• pan american day
• pre-valentines day
• radioactive decay
• rationalise away
• sedimentary clay
• transfiguration day
• united nations day
• military attache
• complementary dna
• informational rna
• rationalize away
• apex of the sun's way
• first baron macaulay
• in someone's way
• robert e lee's birthday
• edouard manet
• peter carl faberge
• provisional ira
• stephen vincent benet
• battle of poitiers
• boletus roxanae
• chicken cacciatore
• class heterokontae
• daphne du maurier
• family anguidae
• family apidae
• family ardeidae
• family blattidae
• family bothidae
• family bramidae
• family caproidae
• family capsidae
• family cervidae
• family cestidae
• family chalcidae
• family chermidae
• family clupeidae
• family congridae
• family coreidae
• family corvidae
• family cottidae
• family cracidae
• family dacninae
• family equidae
• family gadidae
• family gavidae
• family gerridae
• family gliridae
• family gryllidae
• family icteridae
• family iguanidae
• family indriidae
• family isuridae
• family ixodidae
• family jassidae
• family labridae
• family majidae
• family manteidae
• family mantidae
• family mimidae
• family muridae
• family mysidae
• family nepidae
• family noctuidae
• family oniscidae
• family osmeridae
• family percidae
• family phasmidae
• family phillidae
• family pholidae
• family phyllidae
• family physidae
• family picidae
• family pieridae
• family pipridae
• family pongidae
• family proteidae
• family psyllidae
• family ranidae
• family raphidae
• family scaridae
• family sittidae
• family sphecidae
• family sphingidae
• family squalidae
• family squillidae
• family sulidae
• family talpidae
• family tethyidae
• family thripidae
• family tingidae
• family todidae
• foeniculum dulce
• foeniculum vulgare
• francois duvalier
• genus cryptocoryne
• georges cuvier
• group pteridospermae
• haemophilia a
• hemophilia a
• hydromantes shastae
• kingdom prokaryotae
• menopon gallinae
• oxalis pes-caprae
• prunus susquehanae
• stephane mallarme
• subclass arecidae
• suborder menurae
• traction trebuchet
• trentino-alto adige

7 Syllables

• microfilariae
• radioimmunoassay
• armadillidiidae
• balaenicipitidae
• caesalpinioideae
• hyalospongiae

Phrases (173)

• cross-florida waterway
• heinrich engelhard steinway
• henry engelhard steinway
• okeechobee waterway
• quinquagesima sunday
• uveoscleral pathway
• william ashley sunday
• capital of uruguay
• republic of paraguay
• alphanumeric display
• battle of manila bay
• cassius marcellus clay
• edna saint vincent millay
• passive matrix display
• suicide squeeze play
• victory in europe day
• victory over japan day
• quadrigesima sunday
• religious holiday
• exploratory survey
• safety squeeze play
• capital of paraguay
• lamina arcus vertebrae
• east indian rosebay
• jefferson davis' birthday
• martin luther king jr's birthday
• nicholas vachel lindsay
• william rose benet
• antoine lavoisier
• botulinum toxin a
• capital of zimbabwe
• caranx bartholomaei
• diane de poitiers
• emily jane bronte
• erianthus ravennae
• family adelgidae
• family aepyornidae
• family agamidae
• family agonidae
• family akeridae
• family alaudidae
• family albulidae
• family amiidae
• family ancylidae
• family anguillidae
• family anhingidae
• family arcellidae
• family asilidae
• family balaenidae
• family balanidae
• family belonidae
• family blenniidae
• family bombycidae
• family brotulidae
• family buccinidae
• family burhinidae
• family carangidae
• family cardiidae
• family caviidae
• family centriscidae
• family characidae
• family chinchillidae
• family chrysopidae
• family cimicidae
• family coerebidae
• family columbidae
• family compositae
• family cricetidae
• family culicidae
• family cynipidae
• family cyprinidae
• family dasyurinae
• family dipodidae
• family dugongidae
• family dytiscidae
• family elapidae
• family elopidae
• family emydidae
• family engraulidae
• family formicidae
• family fringillidae
• family gekkonidae
• family gerrididae
• family glossinidae
• family gobiidae
• family guttiferae
• family haemulidae
• family halictidae
• family homaridae
• family hydrophidae
• family ibidiidae
• family lacertidae
• family lampyridae
• family laniidae
• family leporidae
• family limulidae
• family locustidae
• family lucanidae
• family lutjanidae
• family luvaridae
• family machilidae
• family macrouridae
• family mammutidae
• family mantispidae
• family meropidae
• family mobulidae
• family momotidae
• family muraenidae
• family mutillidae
• family mytilidae
• family nautilidae
• family octopodidae
• family orchestiidae
• family ostraciontidae
• family paguridae
• family panorpidae
• family parulidae
• family passeridae
• family pempheridae
• family pholadidae
• family pholididae
• family prunellidae
• family psophiidae
• family pteriidae
• family pulicidae
• family pyralidae
• family rynchopidae
• family satyridae
• family sciaridae
• family sciuridae
• family sepiidae
• family serranidae
• family sphyraenidae
• family stromateidae
• family sylviidae
• family taeniidae
• family tarsiidae
• family tayassuidae
• family teiidae
• family tetraonidae
• family tipulidae
• family toxotidae
• family triakidae
• family triopidae
• family trochilidae
• family turnicidae
• family varanidae
• family viverrinae
• family xenicidae
• genus amphicarpaea
• helenium autumnale
• henry le chatelier
• hypericum crux andrae
• ipomoea pes-caprae
• ixodes neotomae
• jean-claude duvalier
• jordanella floridae
• luis de gongora y argote
• republic of zimbabwe
• santa maria del tule
• sinus venosus sclerae
• sir john everett millais
• sitophylus oryzae
• strelitzia reginae
• subclass commelinidae
• subclass dilleniidae
• subclass hamamelidae
• subfamily bovinae
• subfamily merginae
• subfamily turdinae
• superorder ratitae
• urocystis cepulae
• maurice chevalier

8 Syllables

Phrases (118).

• immunochemical assay
• information superhighway
• olaf ii of norway
• septuagesima sunday
• american indian day
• in an elaborate way
• texas independence day
• thomas babington macaulay
• american labor party
• australopithecus boisei
• baron georges cuvier
• class monocotyledonae
• dame daphne du maurier
• family accipitridae
• family alopiidae
• family amphioxidae
• family antedonidae
• family apogonidae
• family aulostomidae
• family bathyergidae
• family belemnitidae
• family bradypodidae
• family bucerotidae
• family caeciliadae
• family caeciliidae
• family caenolestidae
• family callithricidae
• family carchariidae
• family cephalobidae
• family ceratopsidae
• family chlorophthalmidae
• family chrysochloridae
• family ciconiidae
• family coregonidae
• family crocodylidae
• family cryptocercidae
• family cuterebridae
• family cynoglossidae
• family dasypodidae
• family dasyproctidae
• family diodontidae
• family discoglossidae
• family doliolidae
• family drosophilidae
• family eimeriidae
• family elephantidae
• family erinaceidae
• family eschrichtiidae
• family fasciolidae
• family geometridae
• family geophilidae
• family haemoproteidae
• family hemiprocnidae
• family hemiramphidae
• family hippoboscidae
• family holothuridae
• family hydrochoeridae
• family hylobatidae
• family kasuwonidae
• family malacanthidae
• family meleagrididae
• family microdesmidae
• family microhylidae
• family monocanthidae
• family monodontidae
• family motacillidae
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355 Words That Rhyme With Essay

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Words That Rhyme With "Essay" :

1 syllable:.

a , ay , bay , bey , blae , blay , brae , braies , bray , brey , cay , chay , Che , clay , Cray , day , dray , drey , fay , Faye , fey , flay , fley , frae , fray , Frey , gay , Gaye , gey , gray , greige , grey , griege , hae , hay , haye , hey , Jae , jay , Jaye , Kaye , lait , lay , lei , ley , may , Maye , nay , neigh , Ney , pay , Paye , Pei , play , pray , prey , quai , quey , Rae , ray , say , scray , seay , shay , Shea , slay , sleigh , sley , spae , spay , splay , spray , stay , stey , stray , sway , tae , Tay , they , tray , trey , way , Wei , weigh , wey , whey , yay , yea

2 syllables:

abbe , Aday , adret , affray , allay , array , astay , astray , Augier , away , aweigh , balche , ballet , Beauvais , belay , Benet , betray , bewray , bidet , Binet , Bombay , bouchee , boucle , bouquet , broche , buffet , cafe , cahier , Calais , callais , carnet , Cathay , chalet , chevee , chevet , chine , cliche , cloque , coday , convey , corvee , Countee , crochet , croquet , d'orsay , da , Daudet , Daumier , decay , defray , delay , deray , dernier , dismay , display , distrait , dossier , Douai , dovey , dragee , embay , epee , estray , filet , fillet , flambe , formee , frappe , gelee , gilet , halfway , Hervey , hooray , hurray , Imlay , inveigh , issei , Jose , kibei , koine , Lome , lycee , mamey , Manet , manque , Mckay , Millais , Millay , mislay , misplay , moire , Monet , Monnet , nisei , obey , ok , okay , Olay , outplay , outre , outstay , palais , parfait , parquet , passe , Poitiers , portray , prepay , puree , purvey , Ramee , Rene , Renee , rentier , repay , replay , risque , Roget , roue , sachet , sashay , saute , soigne , soiree , sorbet , souffle , strathspey , stupay , survey , today , Tokay , toupee , toupet , unlay , unsay , valet , Vouvray

3 syllables:

allonge , antigay , applique , attache , cabaret , cabasset , Cabernet , camouflet , canotier , cassoulet , champleve , chansonnier , cia , cloisonne , consomme , counterweigh , crudites , decollete , degage , dejeuner , demode , disarray , disobey , dna , dubonnet , ecarte , ecrase , Ellamae , encastre , everyday , Faberge , faconne , faraway , fiance , galoubet , Hogmanay , interlay , intraday , Lavoisier , loupcervier , Lyonnais , Mallarme , Monterey , Monterrey , Montpellier , Montrachet , neglige , negligee , okoume , overplay , overstay , overweigh , Piaget , pourparler , printanier , recamier , rechauffe , redisplay , renverse , resurvey , retrousse , sommelier , tutoyer , underlay , underpay , underplay , underway , usa , veloute , welladay , Yenisei

4 syllables:

avodire , bioassay , cabriolet , charcutier , communique , egalite , eglomise , hiaa , naivete

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Pure Rhymes – 390 rhymes

Words that have identical vowel-based rhyme sounds in the tonic syllable. Moreover, that tonic syllable must start with a different consonantal sound.

• Father's Day
• or one hell of a
• blow the cobwebs away
• explain away
• far and away
• fritter away
• give oneself away
• give the show away
• smooth away
• spirit away
• square away
• squared away
• take it away
• take one's breath away
• take your breath away
• tear oneself away
• bring to bay
• keep at bay
• every ass likes to hear himself bray
• vicar of bray
• feet of clay
• Rome wasn't built in a day
• brighten up the day
• call it a day
• carry the day
• cold light of day
• every dog has his day
• forever and a day
• have a field day
• he'll rue the day
• in the cold light of day
• night and day
• not to give one the time of day
• pass the time of day
• red letter day
• save for a rainy day
• save the day
• see the light of day
• that'll be the day
• the other day
• time of day
• tomorrow's another day
• meet halfway
• meet one halfway
• meet someone halfway
• hit the hay
• be that as it may
• come what may
• let the chips fall where they may
• crime doesn't pay
• devil to pay
• the devil to pay
• child's play
• game at which two can play
• while the cat's away, the mouse will play
• have one's say
• strange to say
• that is to say
• you don't say
• get underway
• any old way
• any which way
• come a long way
• come one's way
• feel one's way
• find out the hard way
• get in one's way
• get out of the way
• go one's way
• go out of one's way
• have the right of way
• in a bad way
• in a big way
• in a kind of way
• in a sort of way
• in the family way
• lead the way
• learn the hard way
• make one's way
• on one's way
• out of one's way
• pave the way
• pay one's way
• pick one's way
• put in one's way
• put one out of the way
• put out of the way
• rub someone up the wrong way
• rub the wrong way
• stand in one's way
• the whole way
• the wrong way
• where there's a will, there's a way

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Words that "almost" rhyme on the vowel-based rhyme sound of the stressed syllable like: be/eat or maybe/shapely.

• not to get to first base
• reach first base
• to first base
• basket case
• just in case
• on the case
• vanity case
• cut to the chase
• lead a merry chase
• wild goose chase
• blow up in one's face
• blue in the face
• cut off one's nose to spite one's face
• cut off your nose to spite your face
• egg on your face
• face to face
• hatchet face
• in one's face
• in the face
• in your face
• keep a straight face
• look in the face
• make a face
• plain as the nose on your face
• pull a long face
• shoot off one's face
• show one's face
• slap in the face
• stare in the face
• straight face
• till you're blue in the face
• to one's face
• to spite one's face
• wipe the smile of someone's face
• written all over your face
• day of grace
• fall from grace
• period of grace
• saving grace
• with a bad grace
• with good grace
• at a snail's pace
• change of pace
• snail's pace
• all over the place
• between a rock and a hard place
• feel out of place
• haircut place
• have one's heart in the right place
• heart in the right place
• in another's place
• in the first place
• in the place
• in the same place
• in the second place
• in the third place
• jumping off place
• know one's place
• know your place
• lightning never strikes twice in the same place
• out of place
• put in one's place
• put one in one's place
• outer space
• without a trace
• sell like hot cakes
• no great shakes
• pull up stakes

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Top 193 Words That Rhyme with Essay (With Meanings)

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Words That Rhyme With Essay

• Airplay – The broadcasting of a program or music on the radio or television, often used to describe the airplay chart or a media metric.
• Allay – To alleviate or calm, often used to describe the allay fears or a state of mind.
• Alleyway – A narrow passage between buildings, often used to describe the alleyway entrance or a type of urban landscape.
• Anyway – In any case or regardless, often used to describe the anyway you slice it or a common expression.
• Array – A large number or arrangement of things, often used to describe the array of options or a display.
• Astray – Away from the correct path or direction, often used to describe the astray dog or a state of confusion.
• Attache – A diplomatic official serving in a foreign embassy, often used to describe the attache case or a type of luggage.
• Aurae – Plural of “aura,” a distinctive atmosphere or feeling, often used to describe the aurae of success or a spiritual concept.
• Away – At a distance or absent, often used to describe the away game or a state of being.
• Aweigh – Raised and supported by a rope or anchor, often used to describe the aweigh anchor or a maritime term
• Ballet – A classical dance form characterized by grace and precision, often used to describe the ballet dancer or a type of performance.
• Bay – A broad inlet of the sea, often used to describe the bay area or a geographical feature.
• Belay – To secure a rope or line, often used to describe the belay device or a rock climbing term.
• Betray – To be disloyal or reveal a secret, often used to describe the betray trust or a breach of faith.
• Bey – A Turkish title for a governor or chief, often used to describe the bey unit or a military term.
• Bobsleigh – A type of sled used for racing down an ice track, often used to describe the bobsleigh team or a winter sport.
• Bouquet – A bunch of flowers or a characteristic fragrance, often used to describe the bouquet of wine or a sensory experience.
• Brae – A Scottish word for a hillside or slope, often used to describe the brae road or a topographical feature.
• Bray – To make a loud, harsh sound like a donkey, often used to describe the braying animal or a noise.
• Breakaway – To separate or detach suddenly, often used to describe the breakaway goal or a type of clothing.
• Briquet – A small block of compressed fuel, often used to describe the briquet stove or a heating method.
• Byplay – A minor interaction or conversation, often used to describe the byplay between characters or a theatrical term.
• Cabaret – A form of entertainment that features music, dance, comedy, and other performances, often performed in a small venue or nightclub setting.
• Cabriolet – A type of convertible automobile with a retractable roof or canopy.
• Caesurae – A pause or break in a line of poetry, often used to create rhythm or emphasis.
• Cafe – A small restaurant or coffeehouse that serves light meals and drinks, often with a casual and relaxed atmosphere.
• Caraway – A type of aromatic spice that is commonly used in cooking and baking, often with a distinctive flavor and aroma.
• Carriageway – The part of a road or highway that is intended for vehicles to drive on, often separated from the pedestrian or bicycle lanes.
• Castaway – A person who has been stranded or marooned on a deserted island or other remote location, often as a result of a shipwreck or other disaster.
• Cay – A small, low-lying island or reef, often located in the Caribbean or other tropical regions.
• Che – A revolutionary symbol or icon associated with the Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara, often used as a symbol of rebellion or dissent.
• Clay – A type of natural material that is composed of fine particles of minerals or other organic matter, often used in pottery and other crafts.
• Cliché – A trite or overused phrase or expression that has lost its original impact or meaning, often used in a way that is predictable or unoriginal.
• Companionway – A type of stairway or passage on a ship or aircraft that provides access to different levels or compartments.
• Convey – To transport or move something from one place to another, often using a vehicle or other means of transportation.
• Copay – A portion of the cost of a medical treatment or prescription drug that is paid by the patient, often as part of an insurance plan.
• Copulae – A type of grammatical element or word that is used to link two words or phrases together, often used to create subject-verb agreement or to express identity or equivalence.
• Crochet – A type of needlework or craft that involves using a hooked needle to create loops and knots in yarn or other materials, often used to create clothing or decorative items.
• Croquet – A lawn game that involves using mallets to hit wooden balls through a series of hoops or wickets.
• Cybercafe – A type of cafe or internet cafe that provides access to computers and the internet, often used for browsing or gaming.
• Day – A period of time that lasts from sunrise to sunset, often used to indicate a 24-hour period or a specific date.
• Decay – To decompose or break down over time, often due to natural or chemical processes, or to deteriorate or decline in quality or condition.
• Defray – To pay or provide the cost or expense of something, often used to describe a payment or reimbursement.
• Delay – To postpone or put off until a later time, often due to circumstances or other factors that make it impossible or impractical to proceed.
• Dey – A title of honor or nobility used in various cultures and regions, often equivalent to a prince or governor.
• Disarray – A state of confusion or disorder, often caused by a lack of organization or direction.
• Dismay – To cause someone to feel distressed, discouraged, or disheartened, often by something unexpected or unpleasant.
• Disobey – To refuse to follow or obey a rule, law, or authority, often due to a perceived injustice or disagreement.
• Display – To exhibit or show something publicly, often for the purpose of attracting attention or showcasing a product or idea.
• Dray – A type of cart or wagon that is used to transport heavy loads or materials, often pulled by horses or other animals.
• Drei – A German word meaning “three,” often used in counting or numerical contexts.
• Émigré – A person who has left their own country to settle permanently in another, often due to political or economic reasons.
• Everyday – Ordinary or commonplace, often used to describe things that are familiar or routine.
• Faraway – Distant or remote, often used to describe a location or object that is physically or metaphorically distant.
• Fay – A fairy or sprite, often used in mythology or folklore.
• Fe – A chemical element with the symbol “Fe” and atomic number 26, commonly known as iron.
• Fey – Having a mystical or otherworldly quality or appearance, often used to describe a person or thing that seems enchanted or magical.
• Fibulae – A type of decorative pin or brooch that is often used to fasten clothing or accessories, often found in ancient or traditional cultures.
• Filet – A type of boneless and skinless meat or fish, often used in cooking or cuisine.
• Fillet – A boneless and skinless cut of meat or fish, often used in cooking or cuisine.
• Fistulae – An abnormal or unnatural connection or passage between two organs or parts of the body, often due to injury or disease.
• Flay – To remove the skin or outer layer of something, often using a sharp tool or instrument.
• Flyaway – Easily blown away by the wind, often used to describe hair or clothing that is lightweight or loose.
• Foldaway – Capable of being folded or collapsed for easy storage or transport, often used to describe furniture or other objects.
• Formulae – Plural of “formula,” a mathematical or scientific expression or rule that describes a relationship or phenomenon.
• Fray – A battle or fight, or to unravel or become worn at the edges.
• Gangway – A narrow passage or walkway that allows people to pass through or board a ship, train, or other transport.
• Gay – A term used to describe a person who is attracted to others of the same sex, or to describe something that is cheerful or brightly colored.
• Getaway – A vacation or escape, or a means of escape or departure.
• Giveaway – Something that is given away for free or as a gift, or a clue or hint that gives something away.
• Grey – The British spelling of “gray,” a color that is a mixture of black and white.
• Halfway – At a point that is halfway between two other points, or at a point of partial completion or progress.
• Hay – Dried grass used for animal feed or bedding, or to cut or make hay.
• Hey – A casual greeting or interjection used to get someone’s attention.
• Hideaway – A secluded or secret place where someone can retreat or hide, or to hide something away.
• Holiday – A day or period of time when people take time off from work or school to celebrate or relax, or a vacation or trip taken during such a period of time.
• Hooray – A cheer or exclamation used to express joy or excitement.
• Hurray – A cheer or exclamation used to express joy or excitement, often used interchangeably with “hooray.”
• Interplay – The interaction or relationship between two or more things, or the interaction between people or groups.
• Inveigh – To criticize or speak out against something in a strong or vehement manner.
• Jay – A bird in the crow family, or a slang term for someone who talks too much.
• Lamellae – Thin, plate-like structures that are found in various organisms, including fungi, fish, and some plants.
• Lay – To place or put something in a particular position or location, or to recline or rest in a horizontal position.
• Layaway – A system of purchasing goods in which the buyer puts down a deposit and pays the balance in installments, typically used for expensive items such as appliances or jewelry.
• Lei – A wreath or garland of flowers, leaves, or shells that is traditionally worn in Hawaii as a symbol of affection or greeting.
• Ley – A ley is a meadow or grassland. It’s often used in the context of ley lines, which are imaginary lines connecting ancient sites or monuments.
• Lingerie – Lingerie refers to women’s underwear or sleepwear, often made from delicate or luxurious materials.
• Macrame – Macrame is a craft that involves knotting cords or strings together to create decorative items, such as wall hangings, plant hangers, or jewelry.
• Matinee – A matinee is a daytime showing of a play, movie, or other performance.
• Maxillae – Maxillae are the upper jawbones in vertebrates, including humans.
• May – May is the fifth month of the year, typically associated with springtime.
• Medullae – Plural of “medulla,” a soft inner part of an organ or structure, often used to describe the medullae oblongata or a medical term.
• Microarray – A technique used to analyze gene expression or detect genetic variations, often used to describe the microarray analysis or a scientific method.
• Misplay – To make an error or mistake in a game or performance, often used to describe the misplayed shot or a sports term.
• Moray – A type of eel found in tropical waters, often used to describe the moray eel or a marine animal.
• Naivete – Lack of experience or sophistication, often used to describe the naivete of youth or a personality trait.
• Naturae – Plural of “natura,” Latin for nature or the natural world, often used to describe the naturae data or a philosophical concept.
• Nay – A negative response or vote, often used to describe the nay-sayer or a political term.
• Nebulae – Plural of “nebula,” a cloud of gas and dust in space, often used to describe the nebulae formation or an astronomical term.
• Neigh – A sound made by a horse, often used to describe the neighing animal or a type of communication.
• Nisei – A person born in the US or Canada whose parents were Japanese immigrants, often used to describe the Nisei soldiers or a historical term.
• Noway – In no manner or impossible, often used to describe the noway out or a hopeless situation.
• Obey – To follow instructions or rules, often used to describe the obeying child or a behavior.
• Okay – Approval or acceptance, often used to describe the okay response or a communication.
• Outplay – To outdo or surpass in a game or performance, often used to describe the outplayed opponent or a sports term.
• Outstay – To stay longer than necessary or welcome, often used to describe the outstayed guest or a social situation.
• Overlay – To cover or place something over another thing, often used to describe the overlay effect or a design element.
• Overpay – To pay more than necessary or expected, often used to describe the overpaid bill or a financial term.
• Overplay – To exaggerate or overemphasize, often used to describe the overplayed joke or a performance element.
• Overstay – To stay longer than allowed or welcome, often used to describe the overstayed visa or a legal term.
• Papillae – Plural of “papilla,” a small bump or projection on a surface, often used to describe the papillae taste buds or a medical term.
• Parquet – A type of flooring made of wooden blocks arranged in a pattern, often used to describe the parquet floor or a type of construction.
• Passageway – A corridor or hallway for passage, often used to describe the passageway entrance or a type of architecture.
• Patellae – Plural of “patella,” a flat triangular bone in front of the knee joint, often used to describe the patellae tendon or a medical term.
• Pay – To give money in exchange for goods or services, often used to describe the pay rate or a financial term.
• Payee – The person or entity receiving payment, often used to describe the payee information or a financial term.
• Penumbrae – Plural of “penumbra,” a partial shadow or shaded area, often used to describe the penumbrae effect or a scientific term.
• Play – An activity engaged in for fun or recreation, often used to describe the play time or a type of behavior.
• Pleurae – Plural of “pleura,” the membrane lining the lungs, often used to describe the pleurae cavity or a medical term.
• Portray – To depict or represent in art or writing, often used to describe the portrayed character or a type of expression.
• Pray – To offer a prayer or petition to a deity or higher power, often used to describe the praying individual or a religious practice.
• Prepay – To pay in advance or before the due date, often used to describe the prepaid bill or a financial term.
• Prey – An animal hunted or caught by another for food, often used to describe the prey animal or a type of relationship.
• Puree – A food that has been blended or mashed into a smooth consistency, often used to describe the puree texture or a culinary term.
• Purvey – To provide or supply, often used to describe the purveyed goods or a type of service.
• Ray – A thin beam of light or energy, often used to describe the ray of sunlight or a scientific term.
• Repay – To pay back money owed or a debt, often used to describe the repaid loan or a financial term.
• Replay – To play back a recording or repeat a performance, often used to describe the replayed game or a media term.
• Respray – To apply a new coat of spray paint, often used to describe the resprayed car or a type of maintenance.
• Resurvey – To survey again or update existing survey data, often used to describe the resurveyed land or a type of research.
• Reweigh – To weigh again or re-evaluate a weight, often used to describe the reweighed package or a type of measurement.
• Ricochet – To rebound or bounce off a surface, often used to describe the ricocheting bullet or a type of motion.
• Roundelay – A song or poem with a repeating refrain, often used to describe the roundelay melody or a type of composition.
• Runaway – A person or animal that has run away or escaped, often used to describe the runaway child or a type of behavior.
• Sachet – A small bag or packet containing fragrant substances, often used to describe the sachet scent or a type of accessory.
• Salmonellae – Plural of “salmonella,” a type of bacteria that can cause food poisoning, often used to describe the salmonellae outbreak or a medical term.
• Saute – To cook food quickly in a small amount of hot oil, often used to describe the sauteed vegetables or a culinary term.
• Say – To speak or express in words, often used to describe the said statement or a type of communication.
• Scapulae – Plural of “scapula,” the shoulder blade bone, often used to describe the scapulae region or a medical term.
• Sei – A type of whale found in the Pacific Ocean, often used to describe the sei whale species or a zoological term.
• Sequelae – A condition or symptom resulting from a previous disease or injury, often used to describe the sequelae effect or a medical term.
• Shay – A two-wheeled carriage with a roof, often used to describe the shay ride or a type of vehicle.
• Sickbay – A place on a ship where medical treatment is provided, often used to describe the sickbay quarters or a type of facility.
• Slay – To kill violently or brutally, often used to describe the slayed victim or a type of action.
• Sleigh – A vehicle used for travel over snow or ice, often used to describe the sleigh ride or a type of transportation.
• Societe – French for “society,” often used to describe the societe culture or a type of group.
• Soiree – An evening party or social gathering, often used to describe the soiree event or a type of occasion.
• Sorbet – A frozen dessert made from fruit or flavored water, often used to describe the sorbet flavor or a type of food.
• Soubriquet – A nickname or alias, often used to describe the soubriquet identity or a type of name.
• Souffle – A light, fluffy dish made with eggs, often used to describe the souffle texture or a culinary term.
• Spay – To sterilize a female animal, often used to describe the spayed cat or a type of medical procedure.
• Splay – To spread out or apart in different directions, often used to describe the position of legs or feet.
• Spray – To disperse liquid or particles in a fine mist, often used in the context of cleaning or gardening.
• Stay – To remain in a particular place or position, often used to describe the act of not leaving a location.
• Stingray – A type of fish with a flattened body and long, whip-like tail that can deliver a painful sting.
• Stowaway – A person who hides on a ship, aircraft, or other mode of transportation without permission or payment.
• Straightaway – A stretch of road or track without any curves or bends, often used in racing.
• Stray – To wander or deviate from a intended course or path, often used to describe a lost or abandoned animal.
• Survey – To examine or investigate in detail, often used to gather information or data.
• Sway – To move back and forth or side to side, often used to describe the movement of a tree or object in the wind.
• Tae – An alternate spelling for “tea,” a beverage made from steeping dried leaves in hot water.
• Takeaway – Food that is prepared in a restaurant or other establishment and intended to be eaten elsewhere, often called “takeout” or “carryout” in the United States.
• Tarantulae – The plural form of “tarantula,” a type of large, hairy spider.
• Tearaway – A reckless or impulsive person, often used to describe a young or inexperienced individual.
• They – A pronoun used to refer to a group of people or things, often used in place of “he” or “she” when the gender is unknown or irrelevant.
• Throwaway – Something that is disposable or intended to be discarded after a single use, often used to describe products or packaging.
• Today – The present day or time, often used to describe events or activities that are happening currently.
• Toothache – Pain or discomfort in a tooth or the surrounding area, often caused by dental decay or injury.
• Toupee – A hairpiece or wig worn by men to cover baldness or thinning hair, often made from real or synthetic hair.
• Trabeculae – These are small, rod-like structures found in many parts of the body, including the heart and bones.
• Tray – A flat, shallow container used for carrying or holding things, such as food or tools.
• Tre – The Italian word for “three”.
• Trey – A card with the number three on it, or the score of three points in certain games.
• Umbrae – The plural form of “umbra”, which refers to a shadow or darkness cast by an object blocking light.
• Underlay – A layer of material placed underneath something else, often used to provide support or cushioning.
• Underpay – To pay someone less than they deserve or less than the agreed upon amount.
• Underplay – To downplay or minimize the importance of something.
• Underway – In progress or happening right now.
• Urethrae – The plural form of “urethra”, which is the tube that carries urine out of the body in both males and females.
• Uvulae – The plural form of “uvula”, which is the small flap of tissue that hangs down from the back of the throat.
• Valet – A person who works to park and retrieve cars, or a male servant.
• Vertebrae – The individual bones that make up the spinal column in humans and other vertebrates.
• Walkaway – A situation or opportunity that is easy to leave or abandon.
• Waterway – A body of water, such as a river or canal, that is navigable and used for transportation or recreation.
• Way – A path, direction, or manner of doing something.
• Wei – A unit of weight used in China, equal to about 1/10th of a kilogram.
• Weigh – To determine the weight of something, or to consider or evaluate something carefully.
• Whey – The liquid remaining after milk has been curdled and strained, often used in making cheese or as a nutritional supplement.
• Wordplay – The use of words in a playful or clever way, often involving puns or other forms of word-based humor.
• Workaday – Ordinary or mundane, relating to everyday work or routine.
• Yea – An archaic way of saying “yes”, or a vote in favor of something.
• Yesterday – The day before today.
• Zwei – The German word for “two”.

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How to Teach Rhyming Words and Why They’re Imperative for Language Learning

by Marissa Labuz | Aug 14, 2023

As teachers or parents, it’s always necessary to think of creative and stimulating ways to teach children. One of the most effective, and often underutilized, methods is teaching rhyming words.

Rhyme is an important aspect of the English language and can help kids learn language skills in an enjoyable and fun way. Rhyme opens up a whole new world of learning for kids, so let’s dive in and explore the power of rhyming words for kids.

What are Rhyming Words?

Rhyming words are sets of words that have similar ending sounds. The last syllable of the words (i.e., the vowel and the consonant sounds that follow it) should be identical in sound.

For example, cat and hat , ball and tall , book and hook .

Rhyming words are a delight for children who are learning to read and write.

Benefits of Learning Rhyming Words

Rhyming isn’t just all fun and games. The benefits of rhyming words go beyond silly poems. Here are a few:

1. Rhyming Reinforces Memory

When rhyming words are said or sung, it requires children to remember the previous word and match it to the next word.

They may be able to pronounce a word that they wouldn’t normally know, simply because they have an idea that it rhymes with a previously read word. This improves their cognitive abilities and memory.

For example, a child reads “The girl went to the store because she said her life’s a bore.” If the child was having trouble sounding out “bore,” they will probably pick it up quicker knowing that it probably rhymes with the previously stated word “store”.

Furthermore, when kids learn rhyming words, they also learn how to put sounds in the correct order, which helps them remember new words.

Children particularly enjoy familiar stories and can even memorize parts or whole books through rhymes. Rhyming words are easier to remember as they stick in the child’s brain more readily.

The connection between words formed in the mind helps in future recall. The impact of rhyme is such that many adults can still recite poems or songs learned in elementary school.

2. Improves Speech Skills, including Phonemic Awareness

When children are familiar with rhyming words, they start to recognize and memorize the patterns of the words.

Recognizing the sounds and spelling patterns of different rhyming words puts children on the path of developing phonemic awareness, the ability to hear and identify individual sounds within words, which is crucial for learning to read and spell.

By exploring and playing with rhyming words, kids can expand their vocabulary, improve their pronunciation, and enhance their communication skills.

This foundation leads to improved reading comprehension, literacy, and overall language proficiency. Therefore, rhyming helps young children build their vocabulary and understand the meanings of words in a fun and memorable way.

Studies show that using rhyming words at an early age helps children understand phonetics, improves literacy, and nurtures creativity.

3. Lays the Foundation for Problem Solving Skills

For a child who is struggling in reading or writing, rhyming words can help them problem solve how to read an unknown word.

They have to use their brain power to figure out what sounds are in the word that they’ve heard before and what that word could be using previously learned rhyming words.

4. Improves Self-Confidence

For a child, being able to read a new word tremendously improves their self-confidence. If they can decode a new word simply because it rhymes with another, they will feel much more confident in their abilities.

These are just a few reasons why parents and educators should include rhyming words in their daily activities with children. Not only will it make learning fun, but it also has a long-lasting positive impact on a child’s development.

5. Provides a Fun and Memorable Way to Learn

Rhyming has always been a fun way to engage kids and encourage creativity, and often it feels like a game where the winner is the one who can come up with the most exciting rhyme.

Instead of just reading and decoding words (which can boring and redundant for kids), rhymes let them get a little silly and have fun while learning.

6. Improves Listening Skills

Children can hear rhyming words way before they can actually hear them. Even toddlers can identify rhymes that are spoken!

Therefore, hearing a pair of rhyming words or a story that uses rhymes, can help to keep your child focused and engaged while listening for those rhyming sounds.

7. Reinforces Reading and Writing Skills

As previously mentioned, rhyming words improve children’s language and speech skills. This is the foundation for reading and writing.

If they learn certain word families (which are typically rhyming words), they will be better able to read and write new words.

Reading comprehension can also improve as a result of rhyming words being easier to decode. If child can read faster, they will comprehend more.

How Rhymes Make Stories More Interesting for Kids

Rhymes are one of the best ways to make stories more engaging and captivating for kids. There’s something magical about the way words rhyme and flow together that can capture a child’s attention.

Not only are they fun to read, but rhyming stories also help kids develop their language skills as they learn new words and sounds.

The sing-song rhythm of a rhyming story is also helpful for children who are learning to read and write. It’s no wonder that some of the most beloved children’s stories are written in rhyme, from Dr. Seuss’s Cat in the Hat to Julia Donaldson’s The Gruffalo.

By incorporating rhythmic patterns and playful language, children are more likely to engage with and retain the story they are being told. Rhymes have been used in children’s literature for generations and with good reason.

They stimulate young minds, aid in language development, and add an extra layer of fun to the reading experience. Rhymes truly have the power to make stories more interesting, engaging and memorable for any young reader.

Different Types of Rhymes

Did you know that there are different types of rhymes? Whether it’s used to amuse, entertain, or communicate a message, rhymes come in all shapes and sizes.

A perfect rhyme or “ end rhyme ” is when two words sound identical at the end, like “cat” and “hat.”

Slant Rhyme

A slant rhyme , on the other hand, is known as a half rhyme or near rhyme. This is a type of rhyme in which the final sounds of two words are similar but not identical.

While traditional rhymes have matching vowel and consonant sounds, slant rhymes might share only a vowel sound, or a consonant sound that is close but not exact. This gives poets more flexibility in their writing, allowing for a more subtle effect than traditional rhyming schemes.

Slant rhymes can create unexpected connections between seemingly unrelated words. Some famous examples of slant rhyme include “love” and “move,” or “time” and “mine.”

Another type is an eye rhyme , where two words look like they should rhyme, but they’re pronounced differently, like “bough” and “cough.”

With so many different types of rhymes, it’s easy to find a creative way to add some rhythm and fun to your writing.

Stages of Rhyming

Rhyming isn’t just about finding words that sound the same, it’s about understanding the different stages that make it all work.

1. Hearing Rhymes

Allowing your child or students to be exposed to rhymes will help them to pick up on hearing rhymes. If they hear the same pairs of words over and over, they will surely hear how those sounds belong together.

For younger children, this exposure typically comes through songs and books, but rhyming flash cards can also be a big help as well. Make sure you’re placing an emphasis on the rhyming words as you read or sing, and point out those rhyming words to your child.

Read about some fun games below that can help your child hear those sounds like movement games, jumping while shouting rhymes, and more.

2. Recognizing Rhymes

The first stage is recognizing and identifying the sounds that are present in each word. Once the child can identify WHICH words rhyme together, you’ll have to get them to understand WHY those words rhyme.

You’ll have to ask them questions like, What do those words have in common? Why do those words sound alike?

Melissa at Moving Little Minds suggests “Explicitly teach children that rhyming words have the same ending sounds.  Refer to mouth formation – ‘Watch my mouth as I say the two words.  Is my mouth moving the same way? ‘”

Once they recognize the rhyming sounds, ask them What sounds rhyme in those words and then what letters create those sounds?

This way they can identify what the rhyming sound is and what letters create that sound.

Practice with end rhymes first and when they completely have that concept, you can move on to slant rhymes.

3. Creating Rhymes

Now you can experiment with different combinations of sounds to create rhyming words. This is where the magic happens!

Kids will love starting to create rhymes with nonsense word and syllable combinations, like top/fop or noodle/shoodle. Let them do that until you know they can really find sounds that sound alike on their own.

Once they have that down, get them to create real words that rhyme. Perhaps looking at one word will help them to create a match, therefore have them right it down or find it in a book.

Maybe they’ll need to look at a list of all the words in a word family to find a match. Either way, they can experiment with different sounds to create pairs of words.

4. Refining Rhymes

Once your child has created some rhymes, you’ll want to refine them to ensure they fit smoothly into your writing.

Examples of Common Rhyming Words

• Cat/Hat/Rat/Mat/Fat
• Sun/Fun/Bun/Run
• King/Ring/Sing
• Fish/Wish/Dish
• Bed/Red/Fed

Fun Activities to Teach and Practice Rhyming Words

There are instructions and strategies that parents or teachers can use to teach rhyming words.

Children love coming up with their own silly rhymes, which can make learning even more fun. So, if you’re looking to engage your child while helping them develop their reading and writing skills, rhyming words are an excellent place to start!

Firstly, start with simple words, such as cat, hat, and bat, that have obvious rhyme patterns.

Lastly, you can read rhyming stories, poems, and books aloud to your children, such as Dr. Seuss, Shel Silverstein, and Eric Carle. That way, they can hear and see the patterns in a fun way.

Play Games that Encourage Rhyming

Play games with your children that involve rhyming words. There are many that you can choose from, such as “I spy with my little eye, something that rhymes with…”

Most of these games you can DIY, but I’ve included some links to products to make your life easier!

1. Rhyme Matching Game :  Create a set of picture cards or word cards with rhyming pairs. Shuffle them and lay them face down on a table. Students take turns flipping two cards at a time, trying to match rhyming pairs. Encourage them to say the words out loud to reinforce the rhyming pattern.

2. Rhyme Time Bingo :  Create bingo boards with different rhyming words instead of numbers. Provide students with word cards or picture cards with the corresponding rhyming words. Call out a word, and students cover the matching rhyming word on their Bingo boards. This game helps students associate different words that sound alike.

Rhyming Bingo adds an element of friendly competition while reinforcing their ability to identify and recognize rhyming words.

3. Rhyme Relay Race:  Divide the students into teams. Prepare slips of paper with different words that can be grouped into rhyming families (E.G., Cat, Hat, Mat). Each team takes turns picking a word and running to the board to find a matching rhyming word. The team that successfully finds the rhyme earns a point. This game encourages quick thinking and reinforces rhyming skills.

4. Rhyme Freeze:  Play some lively music and have students move around the classroom. When the music stops, call out a word. Students must freeze and find a classmate who can come up with a rhyming word. This game encourages quick thinking and creativity.

5. Rhyme Sort Word Families:  Provide students with a variety of word cards and ask them to sort them into piles based on their rhyming patterns or “ word families “. For example, they can create piles for words that rhyme with “Cat,” “Dog,” “Book,” and so on. This activity helps students identify and analyze different rhyming word families.

Check out the Apple Word Families Game and other themes in my Teaching Littles Shop.

6. Rhyme Memory Matching:  Create pairs of word cards, with one card in each pair showing a word and the other card showing a corresponding rhyming word. Shuffle the cards and place them face down in a grid. Students take turns flipping two cards at a time, trying to find matching rhyming pairs. This game helps strengthen memory while reinforcing rhyming patterns.

7. Word Scavenger Hunt :  Have a word hunt where students search for objects in the classroom that rhyme with specific words. 

8. Rhyming Apps: Use interactive online games and apps that focus on rhyming words. Educational apps like “Endless Reader” focus on rhyming words through interactive games and animations.

9. Time Challenge:  Have a “Rhyme Time” challenge where students take turns coming up with rhyming words in a given timeframe. 

10. Rhyming Word Dominos: This game encourages critical thinking and concentration as students match rhyming pairs. 

11. Rhyming Word Jars: Fill jars with objects or pictures that rhyme (e.g.,cat, hat, bat) and have students pick one out at a time and say a rhyming word for it. It’s a tactile way to explore rhymes.

12 . Who gets the last word?  Pick a first word, then call out rhymes back and forth until someone is out of rhymes. As the grownup, you can mix in lesser-known words to save your child’s core vocabulary for them, and to help them learn new words in the process.

13 . How many times can you rhyme?  Pick a word and a target number, then challenge your student to find that many rhymes in a minute. You can vary up the rules: you can challenge them to find X number of rhymes and they can accept or defer (in which case if you can get that number, you earn the point). You can give them a list of words and a longer duration and see how many rhymes they accumulate. And of course you can set the target numbers ahead of time by compiling your own list of words you think they can get (with the last 1-2 challenging their vocabulary).

14. The Magical Wizard’s Box

This is a game that involves a lot of repetitive chanting, which is a fantastic way to get started with rhyme.

Have an old box ready to serve as the wizard’s magical box. You may use a picnic basket, treasure box, a cauldron, or something similar. You’ll also need some sort of magic wand.

Hide an object in the box and has a lot of words that rhyme with it. For example, you could hide a toy cat in the box (but not let the children see it).

Tell the kids you’re going to build a rhyming spell. The box is now empty (not really true! ), but if you all cast a magnificent spell, something will appear in thebox. Aim the wand towards the box and have the kids wiggle their magic fingers’at it.

Then begin chanting magic rhyming words at the box! These words will all rhyme with the object that you selected.

Then, open the box. Oh, my goodness, there’s a cat inside!

You could play the game again with various objects. Choose items that have a lot of rhymes, such as a ‘dog,’ a ‘top,’ or something similar.

Word Puzzles: 

Create word puzzles where students match the beginning sounds of words to their corresponding rhymes. For a more tactile approach, rhyming word puzzles and flip books provide opportunities for students to manipulate letters and sounds to create new rhyming words.

Sing Songs with Rhymes

Kids love music and rhythm, and they can easily remember the lyrics of their favorite songs. Incorporating movement and music can enhance the learning experience.

Rhyming songs and chants are not only catchy but also aid memory retention. So, why not use this to your advantage? You can teach them popular nursery rhymes or create your own rhyming songs.

Encouraging students to listen to rhyming words in songs, nursery rhymes, and poems help develop their auditory skills and their ability to recognize rhymes.

Use Pictures to Match Rhymes

Using rhyming word pairs as picture cards allows for interactive activities such as matching and sorting, fostering a deeper understanding of rhyming patterns.

Draw Pictures of Rhyming Words

Have students draw pictures of rhyming words and create an art gallery . They can tour the gallery, identifying the rhymes and discussing them.

Rhyming Word of the Day

Introduce a rhyming word of the day andencourage students to use it in sentences, find rhyming partners, or createartwork around it.

Make a Rhyming Basket

Use a basket or box and throw in a bunch of items that all rhyme together. Let students explore the basket of items on their own time.

Rhyming Puzzles

Simple and engaging, this feature has interlocking pieces with a self-checking design as each piece has only one match. My kids LOVE these puzzles as they feature colorful, real-life photographs for easy recognition and retention.

Use Rhyming Flashcards

These preschool, pre-kindergarten, and kindergarten flash cards feature 54 word cards grouped by sound. Children will love identifying the colorful pictures with the sight words, then finding new words with the same sound. Answer choices are on the back of each card. Kids quickly learn that same-sounding words can have way different meanings. 

Read books with rhymes

One approach is to immerse students in rhyming picture books, where they can hear rhyming pairs in context. These books not only expose them to rhymes but also offer an enjoyable reading experience.

Act out rhyming words

Bringing in an element of creativity, students can act out rhyming words in charades, promoting verbal and physical engagement.

Rhyming Story or Poem Creation

Encourage students to write their own short stories or poems using a set of rhyming words. Share and celebrate their creations.

Phil at Stoic Simple suggests “writing very short, simple, one-stanza poetry with them. Just start with a simple phrase that your children might get enjoyment from (Once there was a silly dog), and go through the alphabet with them to figure out rhyming words (bog, cog, frog, hog, jog, log, etc) and write them down.”

“Then let them choose the rhyming word they like the most to use in the second line, and help them write it (who tried to hop just like a frog.) You can start with a simple two-line poem, or expand it into multiple lines that tell a fun story and add illustrations.”

Remember to make these activities fun and interactive, and provide positive reinforcement for students’ efforts. Incorporating rhyming games into regular lessons will make the learning experience more enjoyable and memorable for students.

By engaging them in hands-on and interactive activities, students will have the opportunity to practice identifying and creating rhymes in a playful and enjoyable way.

Age Appropriate Rhyming Activities

Little ones can pick up on rhyming words at 3 years old, but you don’t want to bombard them with too many skills at that age. Here are some perfectly age-appropriate activities to try:

• Sing songs, read nursery rhymes, and recite poetry – repeat!  
• Read books that are full of rhyming words.
• Point out rhyming words in the world around you.
• Play with a word from a story – Make up list of words that rhyme with that word. 
• Play Chime Time – Allow children to chime in with words or phrases in books and songs.
• Play “That Rhymes, That Rhymes!”  – Say two words (may or may not rhyme.)  Children responds with, “That rhymes, that rhymes,” or, “No way, no way!”
• Sing songs, read poetry, and nursery rhymes – Repeat! 
• Play “I Spy” – “I spy an object that rhymes with ___.”
• Play the name game –  “Heather, Heather Bo-bether, Banana Fana Fo-fether…”
• Play That Rhymes, That Rhymes!  Say two words (may or may not rhyme.)  Children responds with, “That rhymes, that rhymes,” or, “No way, no way!”
• Play Food Rhyme – “Eat some cheese, not pat your ___.” 
• Circle Rhyme – Choose a word family.  All children walk in a circle while the teacher says rhyming words.  When a word is spoken that doesn’t rhyme, everyone sits down.  
• Guess the Riddle! – Create fun riddles that play with sounds and see if your child can guess the riddle. “It starts like bat, and you sleep in it.”  BED!  “It rhymes with dish and swims in the ocean.”  FISH!
• Simon Says Rhyme!  Say, “Simon says touch your toes.  Simon says wiggle your nose!”  Discuss the two rhyming words in the game. Other examples: Give one clap, hands in your lap. Touch your lips, hand on your hips. Touch your hair, spin in the air. Touch your knees, stand like trees. Touch your knee, buzz like a bee. Touch your feet, take a seat.”
• Rhyme Punch: Listen to the key word.  Say as many words as you can that rhyme with that word, moving your arm in a punching motion for each rhyming word. Example: “pack” (punch one arm) “sack” (punch other arm) “wack” (punch again)
• Rhyme Sit or Stand: Listen to the two words. If the words rhyme, stand up.  Ifthe words do not rhyme, sit down. “Sun.  Fun.” (stand)  “Sad.  Mad.” (stand) “Dad.  Mom.” (sit) “Mom.  Monkey.” (sit)  “Cake.  Rake.” (stand)

Why it’s important for kids to learn to use a variety of words when creating a rhyme

As children begin to learn how to write their first verses, oftentimes they rely on simple and repetitive rhyming patterns.

While this can be a good starting point, it’s important for kids to expand their vocabulary and experiment with different rhyming words to truly elevate their poetry.

Not only does using a variety of words make a verse more interesting and engaging, it also helps to develop important language skills that will benefit kids in all areas of their academic and personal lives.

With a diverse arsenal of rhyming words at their disposal, young poets can express themselves more creatively and effectively, opening up endless possibilities for self-expression and artistic exploration.

Encouraging Creativity Through Rhyming Words

Creativity is an essential element in a child’s development, and as parents or guardians, we need to encourage it. One of the most fun and exciting ways to do this is by using rhyming words.

Using rhyming words in poems, songs, and even storytelling can add an element of enjoyment and creativity to language learning.

The more children practice using rhyming words, the more comfortable and confident they will become at using their imagination and being creative.

With a little patience, a lot of enthusiasm, and a variety of fun rhyming word activities, you can inspire your child to think creatively and have fun while doing so.

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Ashley Graham: The Words I Use to Encourage Self-Love

I was 9 years old when I was first confronted with the idea of beauty . I’d always been a larger kid—stout, athletic. People would tell me I was “big and strong.” But this girl, a stranger I saw one day at Target—she was different. She had long, thin legs, a flat tummy, and grown-up breasts. Her blonde hair fell perfectly down her shoulders. I was so young, and yet I knew: she was pretty . I wanted to be that. I didn’t know what modeling was back then—I didn’t even know what fashion was—but I wanted what she had. I wanted to command attention.

My story began like so many women’s, as my sense of self evolved under the influence of feedback from others . In middle school the kids called me “cottage cheese thighs.” I craved acceptance of others and the empathy of a friend group that might understand what I had to offer beyond my exterior.

And then, suddenly, I was a model. A scout spotted me at the mall in Omaha when I was 12. Soon I was being paid to have my picture taken. Adults were telling me that my looks had value.

It came with a caveat, though. I was “big pretty” or “pretty for a big girl” or “pretty from the neck up.” There was always that double label: pretty and plus-sized . In school, the plus-size wasn’t cool, but the pretty was interesting. My teachers would tilt their heads and squint at me, looking for whatever the industry saw. I would fly to modeling jobs in New York City over the weekend with my mom, and be back in school facing the name-calling on Monday. I wish I’d had a mentor back then—someone to help me understand my value and my purpose as a model. But there was no one I could look to and emulate, no one who’d gone through the same challenges to hold my hand and tell me that none of the noise mattered, that I just needed to keep moving forward.

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Developing my confidence in my own beauty came later—and it’s something I still struggle with sometimes. There isn’t one top model who doesn’t live with some sort of insecurity. You could talk to any of them, and I bet they would tell you all about it. We’re constantly being picked apart, constantly being told what’s right with how we look and what’s wrong, how we aren’t meeting the bar, what we need to change about ourselves. It’s enough to make anyone want to give up, and I almost did once, early on. I was 18 years old, living in Manhattan under tremendous pressure to build a new kind of career in a hyper-competitive city with skyrocketing rent. And it was complicated to be a plus-size model at a younger age, because there was even more scrutiny on the messaging—there was a negative connotation that came with youth and obesity and what it might mean to promote body diversity . I felt like I had to work twice as hard as everyone else because I was different. One day I finally called my mom crying, looking in the mirror and just feeling like I couldn’t do it anymore. She told me something I’ll never forget: your body is going to change someone’s life. You have to keep going.

That was the “aha” moment for me. My mom helped me understand my purpose. As I let her words sink in, I thought about how for years I’d let other people tell me who I was. I needed to define my worth for myself. And I could use words, like my mom had, to do it.

Affirmations are a trendy concept now, but back then I’d never heard of them. I literally searched “better words for self,” and I discovered that this was a tool that had helped other people. I could come up with my own personal phrases to use to speak directly to my insecurities. This is what I landed on: I am bold. I am brilliant. I am beautiful. Bold because I’d always been told I was too much—too big, too loud, too much personality—but I knew that my intensity and presence is what would set me apart. Brilliant because I was diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia in the fourth grade and never had the resources I needed to really thrive in school—but I knew that I was smart and capable. Beautiful because I was starting to learn the fuller definition of the word, that beauty is about so much more than the parts of myself that were commoditized.

I used that affirmation for more than a decade as a tool to develop my self-love. Now I know I’m bold, brilliant, and beautiful, and I’ve moved on to other words. That doesn’t mean I don’t still suffer from waves of imposter syndrome or have hard days though. My body has changed things for other people, and there’s an incredible honor—and an incredible pressure—that comes with knowing that. I’ve always wanted women to see themselves in me, to know that any validation I get is equally theirs. But sharing my body with the world has also meant that the people I’ve set out to represent sometimes assume an ownership over my appearance. We all change . I was 28 when I appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit . Now I’m 36 and a mother of three. My body looked different when I was pregnant, and it looks different now that I’ve given birth to my three sons. Losing weight after having kids has brought on comments from people who feel betrayed by the changes they see. I never want women to think I’m leaving them behind, and at the same time, all I can do is accept the journey I’m on and to focus on the things that make me feel strong and empowered—which is all any of us can do. Maybe I’ll lose weight, maybe I’ll gain it. This is my body, and I’m incredibly proud of everything it has accomplished.

That’s what beauty is. It’s knowing who you are, for better or worse, and loving yourself anyway. It’s learning and exploring and forgiving ourselves for the ways in which we differ. It’s grace.

Ashley Graham is a model, activist, author, and a member of the 2017 TIME100 . Her latest book is A Kids Book About Beauty .

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Texas man details wife's devastating miscarriage amid state's strict abortion laws: "Nobody uses the word abortion"

By Omar Villafranca , Jennifer Earl , Rachel Bailey

Updated on: June 4, 2024 / 10:52 AM EDT / CBS News

Texas radio host Ryan Hamilton's world was shattered last month when his wife told him she was suffering a miscarriage at nearly 13 weeks pregnant and the fetus no longer had a heartbeat.

But for Hamilton and his wife, the nightmare was just beginning.

Medical records reviewed by CBS News show Hamilton's wife, who asked not to be named, was treated at a Surepoint Emergency Center branch near their home in North Texas. There, doctors confirmed the fetus — their second child — had no heartbeat, according to the records. His wife was prescribed the drug misoprostol , which induces labor and is used for both miscarriages and abortions. Hamilton says doctors told them the medication may need to be repeated, so they were prescribed one refill.

Starting treatment for miscarriage

"We were told she could take a medication that would start the process to finish…to finish what had already started at home," an emotional Hamilton told CBS News correspondent Omar Villafranca in an interview for "CBS Mornings" that aired on Tuesday.

Hamilton said doctors referred to it as terminating the pregnancy.

"Nobody uses the word abortion at this point," he said. "No one has said that word."

Misoprostol is often prescribed after a miscarriage to help a woman's body expel the fetal tissue from the uterus, which could otherwise cause a potentially life-threatening infection.

Hamilton said after his wife took the first round of misoprostol, it was clear the dose of medication wasn't working, so he went to the pharmacy to get the refill so she could begin the next round of the drug.

When the second round failed, Hamilton called the Surepoint Emergency Center and explained that the medication wasn't working. His wife returned to the medical center, where Hamilton says a different doctor told her they couldn't give her another refill to continue the process.

"She goes back in and that doctor says, 'Due to the current stance, I cannot prescribe this medicine for you,'" said Hamilton, adding the only word to describe what he was feeling at that moment was "fury."

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The only explanation Hamilton could think of was that this doctor thought the current state laws in Texas prevented it. Texas bans abortions at about six weeks unless there's a medical exception for a pregnancy that threatens the mother's life or health in a way that would result in "substantial impairment of a major bodily function," according to the law .

The Texas Supreme Court recently rejected a challenge to the state's abortion ban over medical exemptions, ruling that "Texas law permits a physician to address the risk that a life-threatening condition poses before a woman suffers the consequences of that risk." Doctors convicted of providing an illegal abortion could face fines of up to $100,000 and even jail time.

Surepoint Emergency Center declined CBS News' request for comment on Hamilton's situation, citing patient confidentiality and HIPAA laws.

The couple was left devastated and confused.

"You start thinking about the women that have to drive across state lines. We've heard these stories. And you — just as a husband, you go, 'Is that what we're gonna have to do?'" Hamilton wondered.

"The doctors feel scared"

Hamilton tried to keep his composure for his wife.

"You want to panic, but you can't," he told Villafranca. "What are we going to do? Leave the baby inside her so she can get an infection? Get sepsis that can kill her?"

The pair left the Surepoint Emergency Center and drove to another hospital about an hour away, where she was evaluated for about four hours. The doctors again confirmed the tragic news that there was no fetal heartbeat. Hamilton asked CBS News to not name the second hospital.

"I think the delay is their confusion on what they're allowed to do. That's what it feels like. They feel scared. The doctors feel scared," explained Hamilton about the hours-long visit. 

Doctors told Hamilton that it wasn't enough of an emergency to perform a D&C, also known as dilation and curettage —  a surgical procedure to remove fetal tissue inside the uterus, used for both miscarriages and abortions.

According to Texas law, abortions are illegal once a fetal heartbeat is detected with exceptions for medical emergencies. The law doesn't require there to be a medical emergency to perform a D&C if there's no cardiac activity, like in Hamilton's case.

"The conversation is not what's best for my wife. The conversation is on the hospital side, 'What should we do?'" Hamilton said.

"This really happens"

The doctors opted to give Hamilton's wife a higher dose of misoprostol and sent her home for a third time. 

"People are not aware of how common miscarriages are. One out of every five pregnancies end in miscarriage. This is a common experience for women, and so it's really scary that here you have a woman going through something that's actually quite common and having such a frustrating time getting the care that she needed," CBS News medical contributor Dr. Céline Gounder, editor-at-large for public health at KFF Health News, said on "CBS Mornings."

In a statement, the hospital told CBS News it follows state and federal laws in accordance with national standards of care.

"We provide training and education to our employed providers to ensure they understand any changes to applicable laws related to patient care. Medical care for all patients is determined by the attending physician based on clinical indications. D&Cs and medications are treatments providers can use based on the patient's condition and the provider's clinical judgment. Care for miscarriage generally does not require Ethics Committee review," the hospital's statement read, in part.

Shortly after returning home, Hamilton recalled playing with his 9-month-old daughter when he noticed a missed call from his wife. He found her unconscious in the bathroom surrounded by blood. He carried her to the car and rushed to the emergency room.

"I got to the hospital, ran inside, told them what was happening. And they took her in. And you know what they said? 'Thank God, you brought her,'" he recalled angrily, adding that at one point he thought he might lose his wife.

The doctors told the couple that the third round of misoprostol was successful. Eventually, she was stable and the pair was able to return home. But the painful process of losing their child is something that will stick with them forever. 

"I want people to know that this really happens. My fear is that stories like ours will continue to get told and not believed," Hamilton said. "Everything in her life right now that she's having to do to get better is not just a reminder of the baby that we lost, it's a reminder of what they put her through, and she has to do it every day."

Omar Villafranca is a CBS News correspondent based in Dallas. He joined CBS News in 2014 as a correspondent for Newspath. Before CBS, Villafranca worked at KXAS-TV Dallas-Fort Worth, at KOTV-TV the CBS affiliate in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and at KSWO-TV in Lawton, Oklahoma.

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Trump called ‘Apprentice’ contestant a racist slur, former producer says

Bill Pruitt, who served as a producer on the reality show, said in an online essay that Trump used the slur when discussing who would win the show’s first season. “‘Yeah,’ he says to no one in particular, ‘but, I mean, would America buy a [n-word] winning?’” Pruitt wrote.

Former president Donald Trump used a racist slur while discussing a contestant on “The Apprentice” during a recorded conversation two decades ago, a former producer for the show wrote in a new essay .

The producer, Bill Pruitt, said Trump made the comment while deciding between a Black finalist, Kwame Jackson, and a White finalist, Bill Rancic, in the finale of the show’s first season, which aired in 2004. As Trump adviser Carolyn Kepcher, who served as a judge on the show, began advocating for Jackson, Trump winced multiple times and questioned Jackson’s performance on the show, Pruitt wrote.

“I mean, would America buy a [n-word] winning?” Trump asked, according to Pruitt in his essay that Slate published Thursday.

Trump ultimately picked Rancic and awarded him a job at the Trump Organization. The reality competition series ran for 15 seasons, helping make Trump a household name before his first presidential campaign in 2016. Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee in 2024, again running against President Biden after losing to him in 2020.

Trump’s campaign said Pruitt’s account was a “completely fabricated … story that was already peddled in 2016.”

“Nobody took it seriously then, and they won’t now, because it’s fake news,” Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement to The Post. “Now that Crooked Joe Biden and the Democrats are losing the election and Black voters are rejecting their policies, they are bringing up old fake stories from the past because they are desperate.”

Trump has a long history of espousing antagonistic views toward African Americans. He declined to apologize in 2019 for taking out ads in 1989 that targeted the Central Park Five, a group of Black and Latino men who were wrongly convicted of raping a jogger in New York City. And Trump gained political notoriety during Barack Obama’s presidency by embracing the false claim that Obama — the nation’s first Black president — was ineligible to be president because he was not a natural-born citizen.

During the first year of his presidency, Trump drew widespread condemnation when he said there were “ very fine people on both sides ” of a 2017 white nationalist and supremacist rally in Charlottesville that turned violent.

Despite his history, Trump has been making increasing appeals to Black voters in his race against Biden, including during a South Bronx rally last week .

Pruitt, one of four producers who worked on the show in its first two seasons, said he was bound by an “expansive nondisclosure agreement” that expired this year. He would have faced a $5 million fine or possibly jail time if he violated the agreement, he said.

Pruitt said the conversation was recorded as part of the show’s efforts to ensure such off-air deliberations did not run afoul of federal regulations for game shows.

Jackson, the contestant Pruitt says Trump described using the slur, said in a 2016 interview with Salon that at the time he was on the show, he did not think race played a role in his loss to Rancic. But Jackson said he later came to believe race factored into the outcome.

Jackson spoke out against Trump’s 2016 candidacy in the interview , saying he has “no interest in supporting someone who I think is, at his core, racist.”

The essay also described multiple instances in which Trump made sexist remarks about the appearance of women working on the show. Trump once told a female camera operator to get off an elevator because she was “too heavy,” Pruitt recalled. Trump also told other people on the set that another female camera operator was a “beautiful woman” who is “all I want to look at,” according to the former producer.

There has been intrigue for years surrounding possible unreleased tapes from “The Apprentice,” especially after the 2016 campaign. Weeks before that election, a recording surfaced from a 2005 hot-mic conversation with “Access Hollywood” co-anchor Billy Bush in which Trump boasted about kissing, groping and trying to have sex with women.

The creator of “The Apprentice,” celebrity producer Mark Burnett, said at the time that he “does not have the ability nor the right to release footage or other material from ‘The Apprentice.’ ”

Trump said in a 2018 social media post that Burnett told him there were “NO TAPES of the Apprentice” where he used the same racist slur that Pruitt attributed to him. Trump called it a “terrible and disgusting word.” At the time, Trump was responding to claims by former White House aide Omarosa Manigault-Newman — once a contestant on the show — that there was a tape of him using the slur during the show’s filming.

Efforts to reach Burnett for comment Thursday through multiple publicly listed points of contact were unsuccessful.

Pruitt’s account comes as Biden is working to shore up his support among Black voters against Trump in their November election rematch. Biden and Vice President Harris, who is Black, visited Philadelphia on Wednesday to launch an initiative called “Black Voters for Biden-Harris.”

Responding to Pruitt’s essay, Biden’s campaign said it was more proof that Trump is a “textbook racist who disrespects and attacks the Black community every chance he gets, and the most ignorant man to ever run for president.”

“No one is surprised that Donald Trump, who entered public life by falsely accusing Black men of murder and entered political life spreading lies about the first Black president, reportedly used the N-word to casually denigrate a successful Black man,” Biden campaign spokesperson Jasmine Harris said in a statement. “Anyone notice a pattern?”

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A Chill Has Fallen Over Jews in Publishing

By James Kirchick

Mr. Kirchick is a contributing writer to Tablet magazine, a writer at large for Air Mail and the author of “Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington.”

This month, an account on X with the handle @moyurireads and 360 followers published a link to a color-coded spreadsheet classifying nearly 200 writers according to their views on the “genocide” in Gaza. Titled “Is Your Fav Author a Zionist?,” it reads like a cross between Tiger Beat and “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.”

The novelist Emily St. John Mandel, the author of “Station Eleven” and “Sea of Tranquility,” earned a red “pro-Israel/Zionist” classification because, according to the list’s creator, she “travels to Israel frequently talks favorably about it.” Simply for posting a link to the Israeli chapter of the Red Cross, the novelist Kristin Hannah was deemed a “Zionist,” as was the author Gabrielle Zevin for delivering a book talk to Hadassah, a Jewish women’s organization. Needless to say, the creator of the list — whose post on X announcing it garnered over a million views within a few days — encourages readers to boycott any works produced by “Zionists.”

The spreadsheet is but the crudest example of the virulently anti-Israel — and increasingly antisemitic — sentiment that has been coursing through the literary world since the Hamas massacre of Oct. 7. Much of it revolves around the charge of genocide and seeks to punish Zionists and anyone else who refuses to explicitly denounce the Jewish state for allegedly committing said crime. Since a large majority of American Jews (80 percent of whom, according to a 2020 poll , said that caring about Israel is an important or essential part of their Judaism) are Zionists, to accuse all Zionists of complicity in genocide is to anathematize a core component of Jewish identity.

Over the past several months, a litmus test has emerged across wide swaths of the literary world effectively excluding Jews from full participation unless they denounce Israel. This phenomenon has been unfolding in progressive spaces (academia, politics, cultural organizations) for quite some time. That it has now hit the rarefied, highbrow realm of publishing — where Jewish Americans have made enormous contributions and the vitality of which depends on intellectual pluralism and free expression — is particularly alarming.

As is always and everywhere the case, this growing antisemitism is concomitant with a rising illiberalism. Rarely, if ever, do writers express unanimity on a contentious political issue. We’re a naturally argumentative bunch who — at least in theory — answer only to our own consciences.

To compel them to express support or disapproval for a cause is one of the cruelest things a society can do to writers, whose role is to tell society what they believe, regardless of how popular the message may be. The drawing up of lists, in particular, is a tactic with a long and ignominious history, employed by the enemies of literature — and liberty — on both the left and the right. But the problem goes much deeper than a tyro blacklist targeting “Zionists.”

One of the greatest mass delusions of the 21st century is the belief that Israel is committing a genocide against Palestinians. This grotesque moral inversion — in which a genocidal terrorist organization that instigated a war with Israel by committing the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust is absolved of responsibility while the victim of Hamas’s attack is charged with perpetrating the worst crime known to man — began taking shape before Israel even launched its ground invasion of Gaza.

A charitable description of those imputing genocidal motivations to Israel is that they are ignorant, essentially believing the word to mean “large numbers of civilian casualties.” (Here it’s worth noting that the United Nations, to little notice, has significantly lowered its estimate of the number of women and children killed in Gaza.) For others, accusing Israel of genocide is an emotional outlet for expressing outrage at such a horrific loss of life. A third, more pessimistic, characterization of the ubiquitous genocide canard is that it is only the latest iteration of the ancient antisemitic blood libel, which held that Jews murdered gentile children in order to use their blood for religious rituals.

College students and professional activists using overheated and imprecise language to convey their strongly held beliefs is hardly uncommon, and much of the intemperate language being directed at Israel and its Zionist supporters can be attributed to the hyperbole that increasingly characterizes our political discourse. What should worry us more is when people who have dedicated their lives to the written word manipulate language for a political end, one that is stigmatizing Jews.

Nine days after the Oct. 7 attack, the popular website Literary Hub began publishing what has since become a near-daily torrent of agitprop invective against what it describes as the “rogue ethnostate” of Israel, which it routinely accuses of committing genocide. In March, after a mass resignation of its staff members , the literary magazine Guernica retracted a personal essay by a left-wing Israeli woman about her experience volunteering to drive Palestinian children to Israel for medical treatment. In her resignation letter, one of the magazine’s co-publishers denounced the piece as “a hand-wringing apologia for Zionism and the ongoing genocide in Palestine.”

Whereas antisemitism in the literary world used to lurk in the shadows, according to the Jewish Book Council’s chief executive, Naomi Firestone-Teeter, since Oct. 7, it has become increasingly overt. “The fact that people have felt so proud and open about it is a different beast entirely,” she said. One of the most disturbing developments in this regard has been the frequency and contempt with which the word “Zionist” is now spit from people’s mouths in the United States.

Until relatively recently, the use of “Zionist” as a slur was most commonly confined to Soviet and Arab propagandists, who spent decades trying to render the word the moral equivalent of “Nazi.” Today many progressives use the word in similar fashion, making no distinction between a Zionist who supports a two-state solution (which, presumably, most Jews in the overwhelmingly liberal literary world do) and one who believes in a “Greater Israel” encompassing the entirety of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. And while anyone can be a Zionist, I’ve found in my 20 years of reporting on antisemitism that many Jews essentially hear “Jew” when someone shouts “Zionist" at them.

The corruption of the words “genocide” and “Zionist” lies at the root of the controversy threatening to unravel PEN America, the storied writers’ organization. As with many a literary contretemps, it involves a cascade of open letters. In February a missive that gained almost 1,500 signatures was published demanding that PEN “wake up from its own silent, tepid, neither-here-nor-there, self-congratulatory middle of the road and take an actual stand against an actual genocide.” The dozens of statements PEN had issued by that time calling attention to the plight of writers in Gaza (who the letter, without citing evidence, claimed had been “targeted” by Israel for assassination) were insufficient. “We demand PEN America release an official statement” about the writers killed in Gaza the letter read, “and name their murderer: Israel, a Zionist colonial state funded by the U.S. government.”

On March 20, PEN acceded to the ultimatum that it endorse the call for a cease-fire. But that did not satiate its critics.

Last month, in advance of PEN’s annual literary awards ceremony, nearly half of the nominated writers withdrew from the competition. A subset of those writers then released another open letter , declaring, “Among writers of conscience, there is no disagreement. There is fact and fiction. The fact is that Israel is leading a genocide of the Palestinian people.” They accused PEN of “normalizing genocide,” denounced PEN for its “platforming of Zionists” and, most shamefully, called for the resignation of its Jewish chief executive, Suzanne Nossel, on account of her “longstanding commitments to Zionism.”

Along with eight other past presidents of PEN, Salman Rushdie signed a letter in defense of the organization , an intervention that earned him an “unclear” rating on the anti-Zionist blacklist. (He has braved far worse from Islamist zealots and their Western apologists.) PEN ultimately canceled both the awards ceremony and subsequent World Voices Festival.

Dissatisfaction with PEN’s purported lack of indignation over the deaths of Palestinian writers is a fig leaf. Where were the efforts by those now decrying PEN to protest the complete absence of freedom of expression that has characterized the Gaza Strip under 17 years of Hamas rule?

The real objectives behind the cynical weaponization of the word “genocide” and the authoritarian insistence that anyone who disagrees with it is an enabler of one are to shut down debate, defame dissenters and impose a rigid orthodoxy throughout the publishing world. It is a naked attempt to impose an ideological litmus test on anyone hoping to join the republic of letters — a litmus test that the vast majority of Jews would fail.

A campaign of intimidation, the sort of thing that happens to the dissident writers in closed societies whom PEN regularly champions, is afoot to pressure writers into toeing this new party line. PEN’s current president, Jenny Finney Boylan, recently said that she had heard from “many, many authors who do not agree with those withdrawing from PEN events and who do not wish to withdraw from our events themselves but are afraid of the consequences if they speak up.”

Compelling speech — which is ultimately what PEN’s critics are demanding of it — is the tactic of commissars, not writers in a free society. Censorship, thought policing and bullying are antithetical to the spirit of literature, which is best understood as an intimate conversation between the author and individual readers.

PEN’s detractors aren’t helping the Palestinian people with their whitewashing of Hamas. They’re engaged in a hostile takeover of a noble organization committed to the defense of free expression in order to advance a sectarian and bigoted political agenda.

Neil Gaiman, Taylor Jenkins-Reid, Ms. Mandel and other hugely successful authors need not worry that being denounced as a Zionist will hurt their careers. But the blacklists and the boycotts do not really target them. The actual targets of this crusade are lesser-known authors, budding novelists, aspiring poets and creative writing students — largely but not exclusively Jewish — who can feel a change in the air.

“I do now definitely have concern as a Jewish author — two years working on a novel that has absolutely nothing to do with Jews in any way, just because it says ‘National Jewish Book Award winner’ in my bio — that it may change the way readers see the work,” said a Jewish creative writing professor and novelist who spoke to me on the condition of being quoted anonymously.

No longer is being on the receiving end of a review bomb the worst fate that can befall a Jewish writer exploring Jewish themes; even getting such a book published is becoming increasingly difficult. “It’s very clear you have to have real courage to acquire and publish proudly Jewish voices and books about being Jewish,” a prominent literary agent told me. “When you are seen as genocidal, a moral insult to humanity because you believe in Israel’s right to exist, you are now seen as deserving of being canceled.”

There’s a distasteful irony in a literary community that has gone to the barricades fighting book “bans” now rallying to boycott authors based on their ethnoreligious identity. For a growing set of writers, declaring one’s belief that the world’s only Jewish state is a genocidal entity whose dismantlement is necessary for the advancement of humankind is a political fashion statement, a bauble one parades around in order to signify being on the right team. As was Stalinism for an earlier generation of left-wing literary intellectuals, so is antisemitism becoming the avant-garde.

James Kirchick is a contributing writer to Tablet magazine, a writer at large for Air Mail and the author of “Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington.”

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