Rhyming dictionary

Words that rhyme with “cold”

“cold” has 26 perfect rhymes in this list, from 1 to 3 syllables. The most common are told, old, and hold. For a softer sound there are 40 near rhymes too, such as home, those, and hello. The two example lines rhyme “cold” with “hold” and “old”.

It rhymes with the same words as old and gold.

Perfect rhymes

Perfect rhymes repeat every sound from the stressed vowel to the end of the word.

1 syllable

  • told
  • old
  • hold
  • gold
  • sold
  • bold
  • rolled
  • fold
  • mold
  • scold
  • holed
  • mould
  • bowled
  • strolled

2 syllables

  • controlled
  • behold
  • ahold
  • uphold
  • unfold
  • enrolled
  • withhold
  • untold
  • foretold
  • paroled
  • consoled

3 syllables

  • uncontrolled

Near rhymes (same vowel sound)

Near rhymes keep the vowel sound and change the consonants: softer, and there are many more of them.

  • home
  • those
  • hello
  • own
  • show
  • most
  • both
  • whole
  • alone
  • phone
  • ago
  • hope
  • knows
  • close
  • though
  • supposed
  • goes
  • whoa
  • control
  • known
  • road
  • throw
  • suppose
  • clothes
  • broke
  • boat
  • soul
  • blow
  • joke
  • wrote
  • slow
  • yo
  • owe
  • grow
  • ow
  • smoke
  • low
  • closed
  • throat
  • hole

“cold” in a lyric: two examples

My grandma's soup, the bowl too hot to hold,
the only thing that ever beat the cold.

We camped out on the roof, ten years old,
and shared one sleeping bag against the cold.

Lines written for this page. Use them as a starting point, not as a finished verse.

How to choose the rhyme

  • Say the line out loud before you choose: the rhyme has to land on the beat where the melody stresses it.
  • Rhymes of 1 syllable (told, old, and hold) close a line hard; those of 3 syllables (uncontrolled) stretch it and soften it. Match them to what the line is saying.
  • If every perfect rhyme for “cold” sounds forced, move “cold” inside the line and end it on another word.