Rhyming dictionary

Words that rhyme with “light”

“light” has 45 perfect rhymes in this list, from 1 to 3 syllables. The most common are right, night, and might. For a softer sound there are 40 near rhymes too, such as guys, guy, and nice. The two example lines rhyme “light” with “write” and “white”.

It rhymes with the same words as night, right and tonight.

Perfect rhymes

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

1 syllable

  • right
  • night
  • might
  • quite
  • fight
  • white
  • write
  • flight
  • tight
  • sight
  • bite
  • bright
  • site
  • knight
  • height
  • slight
  • spite
  • kite
  • fright
  • wright
  • plight
  • blight
  • sprite
  • trite
  • sleight
  • wight

2 syllables

  • tonight
  • alright
  • invite
  • despite
  • polite
  • delight
  • uptight
  • upright
  • recite
  • rewrite
  • excite
  • ignite
  • outright
  • indict
  • incite
  • forthright

3 syllables

  • overnight
  • impolite
  • reunite

Near rhymes (same vowel sound)

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

  • guys
  • guy
  • nice
  • fine
  • kind
  • try
  • hi
  • mind
  • live
  • while
  • wife
  • die
  • five
  • eyes
  • times
  • inside
  • mine
  • side
  • child
  • behind
  • high
  • died
  • bye
  • buy
  • tried
  • line
  • sometimes
  • outside
  • alive
  • sighs
  • drive
  • lie
  • sign
  • eye
  • goodbye
  • ride
  • mike
  • crime
  • miles
  • surprise

“light” in a lyric: two examples

I'm up at four, still trying to write,
and the baker downstairs just switched on his light.

The hospital walls were painted white,
but you brought sunflowers, and they caught the light.

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 (right, night, and might) close a line hard; those of 3 syllables (overnight and impolite) stretch it and soften it. Match them to what the line is saying.
  • If every perfect rhyme for “light” sounds forced, move “light” inside the line and end it on another word.