Words that rhyme with cretaceous
Top rhymes for cretaceous
gracious, spacious, tenacious and audacious
18 common words rhyme with cretaceous. The most common are gracious, spacious, tenacious and audacious.
Perfect rhymes for cretaceous
3 syllables
- tenacious
- audacious
- herbaceous
- flirtatious
- voracious
- vivacious
- fallacious
- salacious
- rapacious
- sebaceous
- vexatious
- capacious
- loquacious
- mendacious
4 syllables
Show 5 rare words
- hellacious
- perspicacious
- predaceous
- proteinaceous
- crustaceous
Near rhymes for cretaceous
These share the stressed vowel or the ending but not every sound. Songwriters call them slant rhymes.
- status
- basis
- outrageous
- courageous
- contagious
- oasis
- hiatus
- advantageous
- homeostasis
- fracas
- disadvantageous
- subspaces
- famous
- precious
- patience
- basics
- buenos
- preface
- modernization
- heinous
- baseless
- acacia
- faceless
- impatience
- manus
- crayfish
- pathos
- prosthesis
- geisha
- squamous
- magus
- shamus
- ignoramus
- gayness
- obeisance
- bodegas
- ramus
- graceless
- mandamus
- information
How cretaceous sounds
| Pronunciation | /kɹɪˈteɪʃɪs/ |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (cre-TA-ceous) |
| Stress pattern | da-DUM-da |
| Rhyme sound | -eɪʃɪs |
Cretaceous has three syllables, with the stress on the second. Rhymes must match from the stressed vowel to the end of the word.
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Questions
- What rhymes with cretaceous?
- The most common rhymes for cretaceous are gracious, spacious, tenacious, audacious, herbaceous and flirtatious.
- How many words rhyme with cretaceous?
- We found 18 common perfect rhymes and 5 rarer words for cretaceous, plus 40 near rhymes.
- How many syllables are in cretaceous?
- Cretaceous has three syllables, with the stress on the second.