Rhyming dictionary

Words that rhyme with “pain”

“pain” has 54 perfect rhymes in this list, from 1 to 3 syllables. The most common are train, brain, and plane. For a softer sound there are 40 near rhymes too, such as away, great, and name. The two example lines rhyme “pain” with “train” and “brain”.

It rhymes with the same words as rain.

Perfect rhymes

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

1 syllable

  • train
  • brain
  • plane
  • rain
  • main
  • chain
  • lane
  • plain
  • gain
  • crane
  • vain
  • drain
  • grain
  • strain
  • stain
  • cane
  • reign
  • sane
  • slain
  • swain
  • twain
  • seine
  • sprain
  • thane
  • feign

2 syllables

  • explain
  • remain
  • insane
  • champagne
  • campaign
  • complain
  • maintain
  • cocaine
  • contain
  • elaine
  • obtain
  • regain
  • sustain
  • terrain
  • domain
  • retain
  • refrain
  • restrain
  • detain
  • humane
  • attain
  • mundane
  • disdain
  • profane
  • abstain
  • arcane

3 syllables

  • entertain
  • ascertain
  • inhumane

Near rhymes (same vowel sound)

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

  • away
  • great
  • name
  • place
  • made
  • ok
  • stay
  • came
  • may
  • today
  • same
  • days
  • play
  • face
  • case
  • late
  • pay
  • change
  • gave
  • makes
  • afraid
  • game
  • break
  • save
  • hate
  • safe
  • date
  • straight
  • takes
  • changed
  • state
  • strange
  • wake
  • mistake
  • age
  • paid
  • space
  • eight
  • saved
  • became

“pain” in a lyric: two examples

New shoes, I ran to catch the train,
and every step since then has been pure pain.

Finals week, just coffee in my brain,
and my neighbor's drumming is a pain.

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 (train, brain, and plane) close a line hard; those of 3 syllables (entertain and ascertain) stretch it and soften it. Match them to what the line is saying.
  • If every perfect rhyme for “pain” sounds forced, move “pain” inside the line and end it on another word.