Words that rhyme with pernicious
Top rhymes for pernicious
delicious, suspicious, ambitious and vicious
16 common words rhyme with pernicious. The most common are delicious, suspicious, ambitious and vicious.
Perfect rhymes for pernicious
2 syllables
3 syllables
4 syllables
- superstitious
- expeditious
- surreptitious
- repetitious
Show 4 rare words
- factitious
- injudicious
- overambitious
- lubricious
Near rhymes for pernicious
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 pernicious sounds
| Pronunciation | /pɚˈnɪʃəs/ |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (per-NI-cious) |
| Stress pattern | da-DUM-da |
| Rhyme sound | -ɪʃəs |
Pernicious has three syllables, with the stress on the second. Rhymes must match from the stressed vowel to the end of the word.
Questions
- What rhymes with pernicious?
- The most common rhymes for pernicious are delicious, suspicious, ambitious, vicious, malicious and fictitious.
- How many words rhyme with pernicious?
- We found 16 common perfect rhymes and 4 rarer words for pernicious, plus 39 near rhymes.
- How many syllables are in pernicious?
- Pernicious has three syllables, with the stress on the second.