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37 rimes

37 common rimes, -ack to -unk, and their words.

  1. -ack
  2. -ail
  3. -ain
  4. -ake
  5. -ale
  6. -ame
  7. -an
  8. -ank
  9. -ap
  10. -ash
  11. -at
  12. -ate
  13. -aw
  14. -ay
  15. -eat
  16. -ell
  17. -est
  18. -ice
  19. -ick
  20. -ide
  21. -ight
  22. -ill
  23. -in
  24. -ine
  25. -ing
  26. -ink
  27. -ip
  28. -it
  29. -ock
  30. -oke
  31. -op
  32. -ore
  33. -ot
  34. -uck
  35. -ug
  36. -ump
  37. -unk

The 37 rimes are Wylie and Durrell's (1970). A family is the one-syllable words with the rime that also say it the same way (cat, not squat), shortest first; words with an ending are not in it.