Words that rhyme with tenacious
Top rhymes for tenacious
gracious, spacious, cretaceous and audacious
18 common words rhyme with tenacious. The most common are gracious, spacious, cretaceous and audacious.
Perfect rhymes for tenacious
3 syllables
- cretaceous
- 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 tenacious
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 tenacious sounds
| Pronunciation | /təˈneɪʃəs/ |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 |
| Stress pattern | da-DUM-da |
| Rhyme sound | -eɪʃəs |
Tenacious 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 tenacious?
- The most common rhymes for tenacious are gracious, spacious, cretaceous, audacious, herbaceous and flirtatious.
- How many words rhyme with tenacious?
- We found 18 common perfect rhymes and 5 rarer words for tenacious, plus 40 near rhymes.
- How many syllables are in tenacious?
- Tenacious has three syllables, with the stress on the second.