Words that rhyme with chains

163 rhymes for chains: brains, trains, planes, lanes, gains, rains, pains, stains, veins, drains, grains, plains. Every one is a word you would actually rap.

Perfect rhymes

These land dead on. Tap any word to keep it.

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Phrases that rhyme with chains

Whole phrases landing on the same sound. A phrase fills more of the bar than one word does, so it buys you room to actually say something.

Slant rhymes for chains

Also called near rhymes. Same vowel, different ending, so these are the words that almost rhyme with chains. Closest first, so you can hear where each group starts pulling away from the way chains rings out instead of stopping.

-ain

-ange

-ames

-ades

-ates

-ays

-akes

-ace

More rhymes

Longer words that still land on the sound. Looser, but they work in a bar.

About chains

Chains is jewellery, and it is one of the few rap words that ends on a sound you can hold. The n running into a z rings out rather than stopping dead, which is why it sits so well at the end of a bar, and why brains, trains and planes land on it exactly. Chain on its own is close but it is not the same landing, so it sits in the near list below with pain and rain.

Rhyming with chains

The ones people actually ask.

Which chains rhymes actually sound like money?

Champagnes, planes and gains carry it on their own, and bloodstains if the bar is darker. Chains is doing the flexing already, so the rhyme does not have to; the words above just have to avoid dragging the line somewhere cheaper. Private planes and gold chains as phrases do the same job across more of the bar.

Is champagne a rhyme for chains?

The plural is, exactly. Champagnes closes on the same sound as chains, so it is in the exact list. Champagne on its own stops one sound short and sits in the near list instead. It is a small difference on paper and a clear one out loud, which is why the two are split.

Why is pain in the near list for chains rather than the exact one?

Because pain has no z on the end. Chains rings out and pain stops, so they are one sound apart, and that sound is the whole reason chains works at the end of a line. Pain, rain, brain and train all pair with chains constantly in real verses; they are near rhymes doing an honest job, not exact ones.

Which chains rhymes hold the note at the end of a bar?

All the exact ones, and that is unusual. Because chains finishes on a z rather than a hard stop, every word in the exact list can be stretched: braaains, traaains, remaaains. If you want the opposite, a line that shuts instead of ringing, take the -ain group below and lose the s.

More words

Same treatment, different word.