Rhymes for common words / purple
Words That Rhyme With Purple
There is no perfect rhyme for “purple” among common English words. The closest are colonel, purpose, circle, turtle, commercial; slant rhymes such as churchill, wormhole, turmoil work well in lyrics.
Closest rhymes for purple
Same stressed vowel with an ending that is one or two sounds off. The best you can do without a perfect rhyme.
- colonel
- purpose
- circle
- turtle
- commercial
- rehearsal
- eternal
- internal
- journal
- virgil
- universal
- squirrel
- myrtle
- verbal
- external
- thermal
- controversial
- herbal
- fertile
- girdle
- maternal
- nocturnal
- infernal
- reversal
- paternal
- hurdle
- kernel
- referral
- epidural
- dispersal
Near rhymes for purple
Same vowel; ending consonant from the same sound family.
- circle
- turtle
- myrtle
- verbal
- herbal
- fertile
- girdle
- hurdle
Slant rhymes for purple
Share the vowel or the final consonant. Great for natural-sounding lyrics.
- churchill
- wormhole
- turmoil
- gerbil
- whirlpool
- virtual
- proverbial
- working
- turning
- murdered
- burning
- learning
- hurting
- virgin
- searching
- murders
- serving
- workers
- pervert
- nursing
- merlin
- flirting
- sherlock
- burgers
- surfing
- herbert
- turkish
- mermaid
- churches
- workout
- earning
- vermin
- jerking
- sterling
- lurking
- cursing
- servers
- turnout
- curses
- virtues
Multi-syllable rhymes for purple
The last two vowel sounds match.
- person
- colonel
- certain
- service
- nervous
- purpose
- german
- courage
- surface
- circus
- current
- surgeon
- commercial
- version
- urgent
- nurses
- determined
- germans
- rehearsal
- servant
- eternal
- curtain
- internal
- burden
- worthless
- journal
- determine
- versus
- worship
- circles
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Rhymes for purple: questions
Does anything rhyme with purple?
No common English word is a perfect rhyme for “purple”: nothing shares its stressed vowel and every sound after it. The closest-sounding words are colonel, purpose, circle, turtle, commercial, rehearsal, and writers usually rhyme it with a slant rhyme or by splitting the sound across two words.
What rhymes with purple?
“purple” has few perfect rhymes. Try near and slant rhymes such as circle, turtle, myrtle, verbal, herbal, fertile, girdle, hurdle.
What is a slant rhyme for purple?
Slant and near rhymes for “purple” include circle, turtle, myrtle, verbal, churchill, wormhole, turmoil, gerbil. They share the vowel sound or the ending, so they sound natural in lyrics.
How many syllables are in purple?
“purple” has 2 syllables, according to the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.