Rhymes Here is a list of the words that rhyme with the word archetypal.This is ordered by best match. Changing color means the start of the next best set of words.
3 syllable words
4 syllable words
Near RhymesHere is a list of the words that nearly rhyme with the word archetypal.
2 syllable words

artful

carpal

startle

sparkle

arctic

harmful

tactful

gospel

arval

chortle

garble

larval

mortal

ductile

carnal

portal

postel

parcel

marble

darnel

harmel

hostel

hostile

market

marvel

bottle

cockle

coppel

copple

glottal

harle

hopple

marshal

martial

mochel

partial

popple

pottle

throttle

topple

wattle

forestall

arcades

forceful

astral

austral

brothel

horsetail

spectral

markets

lustful

scornful

mournful

mitral

argot

granule

spiteful

ample

rectal

crumple

consul

cromwell

crustal

sample

scalpel

spaniel

rumple

arcade

daniel

rascal

rightful

mantle

cantle

frontal

corbel

thankful

axle

frightful

dorsal

doubtful

formal

tranquil

cornel

mantel

morsel

hurtful

normal

orchid

tonsil

orval

trample

warble

practice

target

thoughtful

wamble

ankle

minstrel

mongol

cordial

forestalls

horsetails

doorsteps

uncle

watchful

rankle

appel

apple

awful

buckle

cackle

capel

caple

carol

carrel

carrol

cattle

caudal

cobble

coddle

hobble

huckle

hurtle

knuckle

laurel

jostle

aural

barrel

battle

bible

boggle

borel

bridal

bridle

chapel

chattel

choral

chuckle

circle

crackle

cycle

couple

coral

docile

eisel

faunal

fertile

final

floral

gobble

goggle

fossil

goral

grackle

grapple

grovel

hackle

idle

idol

jackal

libel

loral

prattle

nozzle

novel

muckle

quarrel

shackle

moral

myrtle

purple

shuttle

sidle

maple

model

oral

papal

pommel

parquet

people

primal

rattle

scuttle

rival

ruttle

rifle

sorel

spinal

sorrel

spiral

squabble

tackle

staple

tattle

waffle

twaddle

vital

tribal

trifle

turtle

vinyl

wobble

waddle

steeple

supple

suttle

tidal

title

stifle

subtle

suckle

toddle

toggle

erstwhile

ventral

boastful

orchids

restful

mistral

central

doorstep

corkwood

entrail

targets

wasteful

practiced

tasteful

wistful

zestful

rigel

aisle

lisle

vial

healthful

trial

dial

rial

algal

amble

anvil

april

bramble

brandle

bristol

bumble

bundle

cancel

candle

capsule

careful

cheerful

coastal

corset

council

counsel

crandall

crumble

crystal

damsel

dental

dimple

distal

equal

fateful

fearful

fiscal

fitful

fondle

fretful

frosted

fruitful

fumble

grateful

grumble

handle

gamble

gentle

hansel

hateful

houseful

humble

jumble

lentil

lintel

mental

mumble

neutral

panful

pimple

pretzel

proctors

practise

prostate

pistil

pistol

quintal

postal

ramble

prayerful

rental

sequel

stemple

stumble

tumble

umbel

scramble

shamble

temple

vandal

shrapnel

simple

rumble

rundle

sandal

scandal

tearful

tramble

trundle

vestal

drugstores

angle

bangle

bashful

dangle

faithful

fangle

fraction

fungal

jangle

jungle

kinkle

mangle

nuptial

sprinkle

spangle

strangle

tangle

tinkle

traction

trinkle

truthful

twinkle

winkle

wrangle

wrinkle

wrongful

youthful

able

addle

anal

annal

annul

babble

babel

baffle

bagel

frostbite

basal

basil

firestone

bauble

beadle

beagle

beetle

beryl

betel

brickle

brittle

brutal

bubble

burble

burel

bustle

brighten

buccal

butyl

cable

camel

castle

caudle

causal

ceryl

channel

circuit

colonel

cradle

cripple

cuddle

dabble

dawdle

dazzle

dekle

dermal

double

drabble

ducal

duffel

eagle

easel

evil

fable

facile

fatal

fecal

feeble

feral

fetal

fickle

fipple

flannel

focal

foible

frazzle

freckle

frighten

funnel

futile

gable

gaggle

gavel

girdle

gleeful

gravel

guzzle

gurgle

hable

haggle

hamal

hamel

hassle

hazel

hazle

heckle

herbal

housel

hovel

huddle

hummel

hurdle

hustle

prostrate

joyful

juggle

drugstore

journal

kernel

kittle

kettle

kittel

knittle

label

ladle

lawful

legal

little

local

mammal

metal

mettle

mickle

motile

muddle

muffle

mural

muscle

mussel

muzzle

nasal

naval

nettle

neural

crystals

needle

scoundrel

navel

natal

nickel

nickle

nuzzle

paddle

penal

nipple

opal

panel

peril

petal

pickle

pleural

plural

proctor

puddle

pummel

puzzle

rabble

raffle

playful

pupil

rammel

scrabble

servile

shekel

shovel

airstrips

scruple

scuffle

seckel

settle

shuffle

sickle

tussle

gorgets

vernal

tweedle

table

tassel

helpful

tunnel

sipple

smittle

smuggle

skittle

snuggle

speckle

spittle

spousal

stable

sterile

stickle

straddle

straggle

struggle

stubble

teagle

ural

vassal

venal

mindful

truffle

verbal

regal

ravel

reigle

renal

ripple

rubble

ruddle

ruffle

rural

sable

rustle

saddle

tickle

tipple

tercel

terrel

thermal

tittle

tootle

total

trammel

travel

trickle

triple

trouble

virile

vocal

weasel

weevil

gambrel

whittle

worrel

agile

bethel

cudgel

ethel

ethyl

facial

fractions

fragile

glacial

hatchel

herschel

lethal

methyl

paschal

racial

spacial

spatial

vengeful

blissful

breasted

brackets

royal

baleful

brightens

dowel

towel

vowel

airstrip

brindle

pencil

howell

doleful

drastic

dreadful

needful

stressful

forster

skillful

brisket

sinful

windle

fructose

loyal

circuits

dismal

mendel

nimble

signal

hopeful

squirrel

hymnal

peaceful

spindle

tractors

workdays

tremble

useful

worsted

willful

bowel

crusted

cranial

cymbal

brookside

dwindle

frightens

gainful

genial

kendal

shameful

grindle

painful

swindle

forest

graceful

kindle

several

shindle

symbol

tensile

thimble

tindal

tinsel

trustees

tuneful

bestial

angel

dingle

bengal

engle

friction

frosting

ingle

jingle

mingle

prestige

single

lingle

shingle

swingle

thrusting

tingle

trusting

wishful

forests

erects

breakdowns

persuades

bedell

bevel

bodle

bogle

boodle

bracket

bristle

bugle

chisel

civil

coble

cricket

crooked

crusty

devil

dibble

doodle

dribble

fennel

driest

drivel

drizzle

ergot

feudal

fiddle

fissile

fizzle

fluegel

frizzle

frosty

fuddle

global

google

frugal

giggle

gribble

gristle

grizzle

jiggle

hegel

kennel

kibble

kiddle

level

medal

meddle

middle

missal

missel

missile

mobile

modal

mogul

mosel

nestle

nibble

noble

noodle

ogle

oval

pebble

pedal

peddle

phenol

piddle

poodle

quibble

rebel

regel

revel

riddle

riffle

riggle

roble

rouble

ruble

rueful

scovel

scribble

shrivel

sibyl

sizzle

sniffle

squiggle

swivel

thirsty

thistle

tractor

treble

tressel

trestle

tribble

trustee

trusty

tubal

twiddle

vessel

whistle

wiggle

workday

wrestle

wriggle

frictions

frostings

archduke

horsehead

bushel

crucial

social

frustrates

fracture

special

vigil

breakdown

bristles

brocades

corrects

crickets

directs

erect

ergots

firstly

jurist

persuade

crested

prejudge

presides

thrusters

pristine

thursdays

tourist

wrestles

breasting

christian

breakthrough

cresting

duel

crewel

cruel

dual

fractures

fuel

jewel

frustrate

jurists

purists

tourists

tricksters

christians

brightly

breakthroughs

brocade

christen

brucite

correct

preside

thruster

direct

thursday

priesthood

frigate

breastplate

frigid

crusades

arrests

brigades

erased

forgets

freestone

frigates

greasewood

lyrist

precedes

priestly

purist

trickster

pursuits

cherished

first-rate

croquet

harassed

presto

pursuit

hirsute

precede

crusade

aroused

arrest

forget

forgot

freighters

turgid

earshot

freighter

throughout

firstborn

crochet

brigade

proceed

proceeds

wrestlers

wrestling

3 syllable words

archetypes

constable

doctrinal

obstacle

archetype

arsenal

barnacle

cardinal

carnival

cortical

farcical

multiple

nocturnal

optimal

portable

practical

proximal

tractable

uncouple

doctoral

archangel

chargeable

marginal

townspeople

unstable

countable

practices

cantonal

portrayal

forcible

quadruple

entitle

optical

soluble

solvable

spectacle

taxable

turntable

tactical

voluble

audible

actual

axial

bacchanal

disciple

nautical

nominal

pineapple

possible

probable

functional

conjugal

recital

orchestral

fluxional

sorrowful

fractional

survival

optional

volatile

arrival

biracial

bronchial

ensemble

forgetful

substantial

vaginal

washable

rectangle

prostration

adrenal

bountiful

cyclical

deceitful

equable

familial

festival

fixable

flexible

plentiful

principal

principle

quintuple

rentable

reprisal

sentinel

skeptical

tentacle

autumnal

backpedal

hormonal

appraisal

hospital

mandible

untangle

masterful

narcotic

orbital

unlawful

valuable

vertebral

marketplace

ungrateful

affable

animal

annual

arable

beautiful

capitol

callable

cervical

chasuble

vegetable

burnable

cannibal

chronicle

cuticle

fallible

crustacean

conical

coracle

domical

fraternal

worshipful

colloidal

comical

committal

corporal

crocodile

dutiful

eatable

follicle

flammable

gullible

horrible

laughable

laudable

likable

likeable

lovable

maternal

mutable

manual

marital

marketer

monocle

notable

oracle

passable

pastoral

paternal

pectoral

pitiful

plausible

potable

prodigal

terminal

fictional

retinal

retrial

revival

treatable

tropical

unable

projectile

quotable

nonlethal

suitable

bankable

psychical

sectional

sectoral

tangible

vertical

upheaval

workable

example

external

insightful

integral

narcotics

postnatal

punctual

regretful

baptismal

unbundle

successful

untruthful

ariel

burial

cereal

palatial

aerial

denial

lateral

guttural

factual

rational

doggerel

mackerel

powerful

touchable

structural

logical

casual

tracheal

national

serial

virginal

varietal

manhandle

entangle

panhandle

unfaithful

congenial

crustaceans

sequential

assemble

abysmal

acquittal

approval

cerebral

charcuterie

communal

crocodiles

delightful

drinkable

empanel

enfeeble

fanciful

forested

imbecile

immortal

impanel

internal

interval

lexical

madrigal

marketers

mistrial

mystical

non-verbal

testicle

peristyle

refusal

retrieval

sensible

tribunal

sigmoidal

rekindle

technical

uncivil

unequal

unsettle

unravel

distasteful

respectful

neglectful

celestial

changeable

commingle

financial

marketing

tangential

potential

sensual

ancestral

provincial

textual

prostheses

bearable

befuddle

belittle

betrayal

classical

clavicle

credible

criminal

critical

directed

disable

disloyal

durable

edible

enable

frightfully

fusible

illegal

leasable

livable

lyrical

merciful

readable

syllable

movable

newcastle

prenatal

provable

radical

seasonal

seminal

accrual

breakable

colorful

curable

debacle

decimal

enamel

feasible

juvenile

minimal

finagle

miracle

miscible

parable

parental

peroxide

personal

resettle

terrible

topical

biddable

caboodle

caramel

clerical

coequal

crucible

graphical

redouble

scalable

peaceable

apical

salable

errorful

tenable

eternal

apparel

traceable

trainable

usable

tunable

varsity

versatile

vitriol

visible

wearable

remorseful

disdainful

distrustful

prefrontal

ministral

mistrustful

crestfallen

transmittal

astraddle

abnormal

architect

resentful

eventful

architrave

resourceful

sagittal

sociable

ambrosial

commercial

sexual

legible

notional

mishandle

magical

official

granduncle

frustration

reachable

regional

visual

teachable

marketings

usual

impartial

judgmental

arousal

auroral

coronal

diurnal

doable

filial

fireside

fluvial

jovial

liable

lineal

lionel

literal

littoral

payable

perusal

pickerel

pineal

pliable

pluvial

trivial

viable

dismissal

parasites

characters

infertile

palpable

culpable

architects

metrical

ignoble

balmoral

dissemble

encircle

embezzle

bedraggle

pedestal

persuaded

practically

prostatic

prostitute

wonderful

utensil

resemble

disgraceful

proconsul

targeted

frustrations

foreshadows

ramshackle

prudential

prosthetic

especial

essential

erection

erecting

court-martial

sculptural

credential

newfangle

gradual

trustworthy

trusteeship

unshackle

natural

withdrawal

virtual

admiral

aerostats

apostle

bedevil

bicycle

bifocal

bimodal

capable

capital

chemical

colossal

corrective

cubicle

cynical

directive

dismantle

ennoble

flavorful

forgotten

genital

helical

icicle

immobile

immoral

informal

low-level

mayoral

medical

musical

parasite

physical

pinnacle

pivotal

preamble

primeval

proposal

prostitutes

quizzical

rebuttal

remodel

removal

reversal

ridable

sizable

skeletal

skyrocket

temporal

tricycle

triumphal

ventricle

vesicle

cultural

judicial

mythical

dishevel

frustrating

direction

digital

initial

triangle

rehearsal

presiding

erections

surgical

foreshadow

correcting

correction

precaution

vegetal

vehicle

ethical

aerostat

barristers

biblical

boondoggle

dispersal

disposal

infernal

crystalline

crystallize

embattle

practises

heuristic

purposeful

whimsical

skyrockets

federal

femoral

liberal

menial

funeral

general

humoral

medial

mineral

numeral

prosody

radial

renewal

visceral

workaday

cathedral

corrections

directions

precautions

mutual

ethnical

ritual

cherrystones

crystallized

heuristics

menstrual

teaspoonful

character

forester

bilingual

typical

barricade

barrister

correctly

corrugate

directly

directors

epistle

epochal

erector

scarcity

scriptural

arresting

crusading

foresters

forestry

barricades

imperil

precedent

cherrystone

director

meaningful

proceedings

wrestler

tragedy

arrogate

crocheting

theorists

parakeet

irrigate

parachute

tragedies

parakeets

christianize

parachutes

creosote

crusader

surrogate

theorist

prosthetics

cruzados

breakwater

surrogates

variegate

prejudgment

preceding

prejudice

christendom

president

presidents

precedents

cruzado

procedure

crusaders

procedures

proceeding

4 syllable words

profitable

charitable

homicidal

sartorial

arguable

collectible

forfeitable

forgettable

hospitable

octagonal

participle

supportable

octahedral

arboreal

heritable

marsupial

archdiocese

arterial

debatable

political

veritable

artificial

foreseeable

quadrennial

irritable

augmentable

untreatable

laryngeal

biaxial

retractable

corrigible

accountable

adaptable

adoptable

affordable

anarchical

approvable

comfortable

convertible

deductible

delectable

forgivable

hierarchical

lamentable

occipital

pontifical

practicable

predictable

presentable

receptacle

remarkable

reportable

susceptible

intractable

transportable

adjustable

appreciable

approachable

impractical

digestible

hydrothermal

noncommercial

orthogonal

proportional

colloquial

erasable

polygonal

palatable

reducible

tabernacle

pictorial

raptorial

grammatical

mollycoddle

municipal

appealable

available

believable

avoidable

bacterial

habitable

medicinal

agreeable

amenable

motorcycle

departmental

occidental

describable

additional

occasional

contestable

processional

acceptable

continental

controllable

discountable

ostensible

professional

nontaxable

nontechnical

punishable

respectable

achievable

fractionally

unreasonable

correctional

directional

forsythias

irrational

manageable

negotiable

perishable

provisional

traditional

coaxial

colonial

memorial

decennial

heretical

honorable

malleable

operable

permeable

tolerable

pyramidal

maniacal

alluvial

proverbial

suicidal

variable

controversial

original

congressional

episcopal

equitable

excitable

identical

immutable

incapable

noncommittal

preventable

observable

obtainable

paranormal

perceptible

injectable

advisable

accessible

amendable

acoustical

admissible

antipodal

asexual

combinable

commendable

compatible

confirmable

consolable

consumable

continual

formidable

sustainable

conceivable

unsalable

exportable

actionable

conditional

confessional

parietal

parochial

logistical

marketplaces

nonessential

nutritional

prostitution

transitional

perennial

inscrutable

contemptible

sacrificial

primordial

divisible

imitable

amicable

attainable

enviable

botanical

fanatical

mechanical

genocidal

mercurial

oriental

permissible

phenomenal

circumstantial

corruptible

convivial

custodial

creditable

adverbial

discernible

immiscible

adorable

consequential

comparable

inedible

immovable

ineffable

irascible

receivable

redeemable

redoubtable

removable

reversible

sabbatical

responsible

incredible

compensable

accidental

electrical

intestinal

inflatable

disputable

insoluble

enforceable

patrimonial

allowable

amiable

bisexual

bilateral

collateral

confidential

conventional

directorate

disentangle

unnatural

material

millennial

poetical

eventual

pitiable

reliable

renewable

tetrahedral

trilateral

tutorial

venereal

devotional

practitioner

relational

delusional

emotional

enjoyable

dysfunctional

divisional

illegible

knowledgeable

strategical

vestigial

instructional

insubstantial

abdominal

anecdotal

apocryphal

applicable

hexagonal

governmental

historical

matriarchal

impersonal

impossible

infeasible

invisible

metacarpal

collapsible

defensible

estimable

patentable

persuadable

characterized

consensual

dependable

patriarchal

disposable

elliptical

equivocal

subliminal

unmerciful

reputable

employable

nonvolatile

antisocial

epithelial

dimensional

spiritual

practitioners

providential

collegial

centrifugal

impeachable

insatiable

impregnable

intramural

sensational

inflexible

unshakable

unsuccessful

habitual

issuable

perpetual

conceptual

admirable

answerable

atypical

canonical

centennial

characterize

definable

directories

desirable

emmanuel

satirical

revocable

rhetorical

ironical

peripheral

navigable

serviceable

noticeable

returnable

terminable

theatrical

personable

vulnerable

unspeakable

insensible

monumental

sentimental

ornamental

pentecostal

sacramental

invincible

disrespectful

invaluable

dispensable

consonantal

encyclical

improbable

implausible

fundamental

inflammable

illogical

fathomable

fashionable

liturgical

preferential

exceptional

methodical

superficial

unusual

detachable

zoological

intangible

intentional

differential

reverential

deferential

extendible

explicable

expandable

explainable

extricable

symmetrical

favorable

statistical

disapproval

pumpernickel

despicable

remedial

deplorable

duodenal

excusable

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Words that rhyme with the word archetypal

Welcome to the Rhyme Finder! This rhyming dictionary allows users to explore rhymes for any given word. This includes rhymes based on syllables, near rhymes, and more.


How to use the rhyming dictionary

Enter your "starter" word in the FIND RHYMES input box, and click search. It's really that simple! We separate perfect rhymes (near the top) from the imperfect rhymes (toward the bottom). In your rhyming results, colors descend based on the best rhyme. Once the color changes, you will notice the results reset back into alphabetical order. Click on any of the results for the word's definition, part of speech, use in Scrabble, and more. Please note that many of our results are proper nound or slang. While we may not store definitions for all of these words, we can direct you to the Google results for that word.


Perfect Rhymes

Perfect rhymes are just what they sound like. No pun intended! Think of perfect rhymes as words which definitively rhyme. Words that most people would not question. Here are some examples:

  • Cat and Hat
  • Head and Red
  • Egg and Beg
  • Soap and Hope
  • True and Blue

Imperfect Rhymes

Near rhymes, otherwise known as imperfect rhymes, are words that sound the same but are not perfect rhymes. Having trouble deciding if a word is a perfect or imperfect rhyme? Here are some examples:

  • Cat and Bad
  • Head and Mud
  • Egg and Peck
  • Soap and Chap
  • True and Cure

Using Rhymes

Rhymes are most useful in creating lyrics, but they can also be used as a tool to memorize. It is a powerful mnemonic device. This is why song lyrics can be so easy to remember! It's also why rhymes are a great study tool for memorizing! Use this tool to help write poetry, win rhyme games, write a rap song, create lyrics, and expand your vocabulary! Rhyming is very important in music because it creates a rhythm that further creates meaning, emotion, and feeling. It also creates an echo in the lyrics. With children, rhyming is a very important tool. Rhyming teaches children how language works, helps them understand the rhythm of language, and learn how to make predictions. In other words, rhymes teach children phrases to anticipate and rhymes enhance their memory. Within all contexts, rhyming is helpful in expanding your imagination no matter if you’re a child or an adult.

When creating lyrics, there are five types of rhymes to choose from.

  • End rhymes: rhyming of the final word of a line
  • Internal rhymes: rhyming of two words within the same line
  • Slant rhymes: near rhymes
  • Identical rhymes: use the same word at the end of each line
  • Eye rhymes: look like they rhyme but sound different

Different Types of Rhymes
  • Mascline rhymes: have a stressed syllable
  • Feminine rhymes: have a stressless syllable.

Ready for a challenge? Try to come up with rhymes for these surprising words that just aren’t very rhymy. Check them with our dictionary! Examples of tough rhymes:

  • Month
  • Silver
  • Bulb
  • Wolf
  • Husband
  • Walrus
  • Orange

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