Words that rhyme with malicious
Top rhymes for malicious
delicious, suspicious, ambitious and vicious
16 common words rhyme with malicious. The most common are delicious, suspicious, ambitious and vicious.
Perfect rhymes for malicious
2 syllables
3 syllables
4 syllables
- superstitious
- expeditious
- surreptitious
- repetitious
Show 4 rare words
- factitious
- injudicious
- overambitious
- lubricious
Near rhymes for malicious
These share the stressed vowel or the ending but not every sound. Songwriters call them slant rhymes.
- religious
- prestigious
- prodigious
- narcissus
- electrophoresis
- litigious
- nonreligious
- botrytis
- bishop
- wishes
- precious
- dishes
- thesis
- militia
- archbishop
- bishops
- specifics
- fishes
- preface
- militias
- stiffness
- eponymous
- viscous
- isthmus
- prosthesis
- discus
- bacillus
- cirrus
- grimace
- biophysics
- rhesus
- elicits
- reminiscence
- facetious
- hieroglyphics
- specious
- thinness
- solicits
- amaryllis
How malicious sounds
| Pronunciation | /məˈlɪʃəs/ |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (ma-LI-cious) |
| Stress pattern | da-DUM-da |
| Rhyme sound | -ɪʃəs |
Malicious 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 malicious?
- The most common rhymes for malicious are delicious, suspicious, ambitious, vicious, fictitious and nutritious.
- How many words rhyme with malicious?
- We found 16 common perfect rhymes and 4 rarer words for malicious, plus 39 near rhymes.
- How many syllables are in malicious?
- Malicious has three syllables, with the stress on the second.