Words that rhyme with Simple
Simple reads as a workaday word on the page; phonetically it's two-syllable, anchored on the short /ɪ/, ending where it spills out through a liquid consonant. Its everydayness lets the song surprise around it. Songwriters reach for it as a non-image word. The perfect column comes up empty, the family-rhyme classifier finds nothing, and the assonance well is bottomless. Lean on assonance and the song will sound contemporary, not catalogued.
Open simple in RhymeForge →Perfect rhymes (4 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- dimple
- pimple
- nimble
- thimble
Family rhymes (0 shown)
Same vowel, with a single consonant swapped for one from the same articulatory family. Slant rhymes that pass the ear test.
No family rhymes for simple. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant rhyming.
Additive & subtractive (25 shown)
Same core sound, with an extra consonant added (or one dropped) at the end.
- dimpled
- dimples
- impulse
- pimples
- blimp
- chimp
- crimp
- imp
- limp
- pimp
- primp
- scrimp
- shrimp
- skimp
- wimp
- brazil
- distil
- distill
- fulfil
- fulfill
- instill
- until
- bill
- brill
- chill
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- cymbal
- symbol
- hymnal
- simplest
- cymbals
- symbols
- bindle
- bingle
- brindle
- dingle
- dwindle
- ingle
- jingle
- kindle
- kinkle
- lingle
- lintel
- mingle
- nimbus
- quintal
- shingle
- sinful
- single
- spindle
- sprinkle
Consonance (11 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- ample
- crumple
- rumple
- sample
- simply
- trample
- sampler
- amply
- gameplay
- example
- simpler
How songwriters use these rhymes
There's the word for simple, and the older word for dimple, and the song between them.
No family rhymes for simple. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
Simple alone, dimpled in the chorus — the song builds the consonant in.
Simple at the line's beginning, cymbal at its end, same vowel humming through both.
Simple and ample share the closing shape, even when the vowels disagree.
Why simple rhymes the way it does
Simple sits on the short /ɪ/, transcribed /ɪ/ in our engine, and flows into the next line via a liquid. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 4 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 67, assonance 12,055, and consonance 11. That's a narrow strict column with a very deep slant well beneath it. Modern songwriting reads those slants as rhymes; the ear has been trained on them for a century. The songwriter's move is to pick a small set of strict rhymes for the chorus and open up to family and assonance through the verses. Simple rewards slant rhyming because the strict pool, when over-used, calls attention to itself.
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About RhymeForge
RhymeForge is the free rhyme finder built into Undercover Zest. It searches over 54,000 words across five rhyme types: perfect, family, additive, assonance, and consonance. It is built for songwriters, not crossword solvers, and the slant-rhyme classifications are tuned accordingly.
This page is a static snapshot of the rhymes for simple. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open simple in RhymeForge above.