Rhyming dictionary

Words that rhyme with “sleep”

“sleep” has 14 perfect rhymes in this list, all with 1 syllable. The most common are keep, deep, and bleep. For a softer sound there are 40 near rhymes too, such as leave, feel, and believe. The two example lines rhyme “sleep” with “peep” and “sheep”.

Perfect rhymes

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

1 syllable

  • keep
  • deep
  • bleep
  • cheap
  • sheep
  • beep
  • sweep
  • creep
  • leap
  • jeep
  • weep
  • heap
  • peep
  • steep

Near rhymes (same vowel sound)

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

  • leave
  • feel
  • believe
  • three
  • hear
  • real
  • seen
  • meet
  • police
  • each
  • eat
  • deal
  • means
  • least
  • week
  • between
  • speak
  • free
  • seems
  • team
  • needs
  • seem
  • street
  • dream
  • sweet
  • beat
  • weeks
  • clean
  • piece
  • feet
  • chief
  • peace
  • key
  • sea
  • agree
  • tea
  • scene
  • feels
  • seat
  • machine

“sleep” in a lyric: two examples

The baby's quiet, finally, not a peep,
and now it's me who's lying here, can't sleep.

We counted cows instead of counting sheep
on the long night drive, but nobody could sleep.

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.
  • A one-syllable rhyme closes a line hard; a longer word softens it. Match it to what the line is saying.
  • If every perfect rhyme for “sleep” sounds forced, move “sleep” inside the line and end it on another word.