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Rhymes for happiness

3 syllables · rhymes on “-iness”

The noun happiness has three syllables; the rhyme sits on “-iness”. Here are the 24 most common perfect and the 24 most common near rhymes, plus 5 multisyllabic ones, each sorted by syllables. The most common are “venus”, “loneliness” and “holiness”. For more punch at the end of a line, try multisyllabic rhymes like “nastiness” or “animus”: they match the vowel before, too.

Perfect rhymes top 24

2 syllables

  • venus
  • enos
  • genus
  • minas
  • venous

3 syllables

  • loneliness
  • holiness
  • emptiness
  • craziness
  • dizziness
  • ugliness
  • readiness
  • laziness
  • dominus
  • tardiness
  • silliness
  • salinas
  • weariness
  • nastiness
  • clumsiness
  • sexiness
  • pettiness

4 or more syllables

  • intravenous
  • uneasiness

Near rhymes top 24

2 syllables

  • enough
  • genius
  • inches
  • princes
  • simplest
  • ninjas
  • plymouth
  • guinness
  • meanest
  • remus
  • gymnast
  • zenith
  • cleanest
  • incas

3 syllables

  • meaningless
  • ingenious
  • optimus
  • olympus
  • willingness
  • nothingness
  • hyenas
  • extremists
  • syringes

4 or more syllables

  • violinist

Multisyllabic rhymes 5

3 syllables

  • nastiness
  • animus
  • ghastliness
  • scantiness
  • bagginess

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Rhyme data: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary and Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the rhyme lists on this page are under the same licence. All sources