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Words That Rhyme With Sky

apply, buy, by, cry and die rhyme with sky. Below are all 64 everyday perfect rhymes, plus near rhymes such as advice, advise, alive and applied.

Perfect rhymes for sky64

1 syllable · 37

  • buy
  • by
  • cry
  • die
  • dry
  • eye
  • fly
  • fry
  • guy
  • high
  • lie
  • my
  • pi
  • tie
  • try
  • why
  • bye
  • pie
  • shy
  • sigh
  • spy
  • thy
  • aye
  • chi
  • dye
  • hi
  • lye
  • nigh
  • ply
  • pry
  • rye
  • sly
  • spry
  • thigh
  • vie
  • wry
  • sty

2 syllables · 23

  • apply
  • hereby
  • imply
  • nearby
  • rely
  • reply
  • supply
  • thereby
  • whereby
  • ally
  • comply
  • defy
  • deny
  • goodbye
  • awry
  • belie
  • decry
  • retry
  • standby
  • untie
  • bonsai
  • descry
  • shanghai

3 syllables · 3

  • underlie
  • misapply
  • resupply

4 syllables · 1

  • oversupply

Near rhymes for sky

Same stressed vowel, slightly different ending. The 60 most common of 395.

1 syllable

  • bite
  • bright
  • buys
  • byte
  • died
  • dies
  • drive
  • eyes
  • fight
  • file
  • fine
  • fire
  • five
  • flied
  • flies
  • flight
  • fries
  • guide
  • hide
  • ice
  • lied
  • lies
  • life
  • light
  • like
  • line
  • live
  • might
  • mile
  • mine
  • nice
  • night
  • nine
  • pile
  • pipe

2 syllables

  • advice
  • advise
  • alive
  • applied
  • applies
  • arise
  • arrive
  • aside
  • combine
  • decide
  • define
  • derive
  • describe
  • design
  • despite
  • device
  • dislike
  • divide
  • implied
  • implies
  • incline
  • inside
  • invite
  • outside
  • precise

Using rhymes for sky

Sky ends on the long “i”, so it rhymes with dozens of short words: fly, high, by, cry and eye, plus longer ones such as reply. The rhyme is easy, so the challenge is variety. Near rhymes such as alive, side and bright add a consonant and pull the line back to earth.

Example lines

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

We lay down in the long grass and we watched the swallows fly,

and drew our future in the chalk-white clouds across the sky.

Perfect rhyme: sky / fly

I’ve never felt so small, and I’ve never felt so alive

as standing on that hill beneath an open sky.

Near rhyme: sky / alive

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Frequently asked questions

What rhymes with sky?
apply, buy, by, cry and die rhyme with sky. Below are all 64 everyday perfect rhymes, plus near rhymes such as advice, advise, alive and applied.
How many syllables are in sky?
Sky 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.