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Words That Rhyme With Rain

again, campaign, chain, complain and contain rhyme with rain. Below are all 77 everyday perfect rhymes, plus near rhymes such as aim, became, blame and came.

Perfect rhymes for rain77

1 syllable · 34

  • chain
  • gain
  • lain
  • main
  • pain
  • plain
  • plane
  • train
  • brain
  • drain
  • grain
  • lane
  • reign
  • sane
  • strain
  • vain
  • vein
  • cane
  • crane
  • deign
  • feign
  • mane
  • pane
  • rein
  • skein
  • slain
  • sprain
  • stain
  • vane
  • wane
  • bane
  • fain
  • swain
  • twain

2 syllables · 38

  • again
  • campaign
  • complain
  • contain
  • domain
  • explain
  • maintain
  • obtain
  • remain
  • retain
  • arcane
  • attain
  • champagne
  • constrain
  • humane
  • inane
  • insane
  • mundane
  • refrain
  • regain
  • restrain
  • sustain
  • abstain
  • arraign
  • cocaine
  • detain
  • disdain
  • ordain
  • pertain
  • profane
  • terrain
  • urbane
  • butane
  • demesne
  • germane
  • moraine
  • retrain
  • romaine

3 syllables · 4

  • entertain
  • ascertain
  • inhumane
  • preordain

4 syllables · 1

  • legerdemain

Near rhymes for rain

Same stressed vowel, slightly different ending.

1 syllable

  • aim
  • blame
  • came
  • claim
  • frame
  • game
  • name
  • same
  • shame
  • fame
  • flame
  • tame
  • dame
  • lame
  • maim

2 syllables

  • became
  • proclaim
  • reclaim
  • rename
  • acclaim
  • aflame
  • defame
  • disclaim
  • exclaim
  • inflame
  • declaim

3 syllables

  • overcame

Using rhymes for rain

Rain shares its rhymes with pain, so the two are often paired, sometimes too often. *Again*, plain, train and remain give other directions. For near rhymes, came, same and name swap the “n” for an “m”, a small change the ear barely notices.

Example lines

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

We caught the last connection on the slow night train

and watched the city vanish in a sheet of rain.

Perfect rhyme: rain / train

The summer that you left me, everything looked the same,

except the sky, which couldn’t stop the rain.

Near rhyme: rain / same

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Frequently asked questions

What rhymes with rain?
again, campaign, chain, complain and contain rhyme with rain. Below are all 77 everyday perfect rhymes, plus near rhymes such as aim, became, blame and came.
How many syllables are in rain?
Rain 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.