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Words That Rhyme With Hope

cope, pope, rope, scope and slope rhyme with hope. Below are all 12 everyday perfect rhymes, plus near rhymes such as approach, boat, broke and code.

Perfect rhymes for hope12

1 syllable · 11

  • cope
  • pope
  • rope
  • scope
  • slope
  • soap
  • dope
  • grope
  • lope
  • mope
  • nope

2 syllables · 1

  • elope

Near rhymes for hope

Same stressed vowel, slightly different ending. The 60 most common of 116.

1 syllable

  • boat
  • broke
  • code
  • float
  • folk
  • job
  • joke
  • load
  • mode
  • note
  • owed
  • quote
  • road
  • showed
  • spoke
  • vote
  • wrote
  • coach
  • coat
  • coke
  • flowed
  • glowed
  • goat
  • node
  • poke
  • rode
  • slowed
  • smoke
  • stroke
  • throat
  • toad
  • woke
  • bode
  • bowed
  • broach
  • brooch
  • choke
  • cloak
  • croak
  • crowed

2 syllables

  • approach
  • devote
  • remote
  • baroque
  • decode
  • denote
  • encode
  • explode
  • invoke
  • promote
  • provoke
  • rewrote
  • unload
  • abode
  • afloat
  • awoke
  • bestowed
  • connote
  • corrode

3 syllables

  • overrode

Using rhymes for hope

Hope has few useful perfect rhymes: cope, rope, scope and slope, and cope is the one that most often fits a song about hope. Near rhymes are the practical option. *Broke*, boat, float and joke keep the long “o”, and the change of final consonant is easy to hide in a sung line.

Example lines

Two original couplets: one with a perfect rhyme, one with a near rhyme.

I didn’t have the answers and I barely learned to cope,

but every morning, out of habit, I got up with hope.

Perfect rhyme: hope / cope

We didn’t have a penny, and the car was always broke,

but we were rich in one thing, and that thing was hope.

Near rhyme: hope / broke

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Frequently asked questions

What rhymes with hope?
cope, pope, rope, scope and slope rhyme with hope. Below are all 12 everyday perfect rhymes, plus near rhymes such as approach, boat, broke and code.
How many syllables are in hope?
Hope has 1 syllable. The rhymes on this page are grouped by syllable count so you can keep the rhythm of a line.
What is a near rhyme?
A near rhyme, or slant rhyme, keeps the stressed vowel of a word but changes the sounds after it slightly, like “heart” and “card”. It is common in songs and modern poetry because it sounds less predictable than a perfect rhyme.