Words that rhyme with gun
340 rhymes for gun: run, one, done, son, sun, none, fun, stun, spun, bun, pun, ton, won, shun, nun, shotgun. Every one is a word you would actually rap.
Perfect rhymes
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Phrases that rhyme with gun
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 gun
Also called near rhymes. Each group keeps part of the sound and moves the rest, so these are the words that almost rhyme with gun. Closest first, so you can hear where each group starts pulling away from the n gun closes on.
-uns / -ons
-um / -ome / -om
-ung / -ongue
-unk
-ug
-ub
-ud / -ood
-ove / -of
-ut
-uck
-up
-uff / -ough
-ush
-us / -uss
-uch / -utch
-ust
More rhymes
Longer words that still land on the sound. Looser, but they work in a bar.
About gun
Gun is one syllable on the short uh sound. The n closes it soft rather than hard, so a bar can run past gun without stopping dead. The exact matches are plain speech: run, one, done, son. Most anchor words on this site pull rarer rhymes than that. The exact list is also short, which is why the near groups below carry the page. They open with the endings that keep a nasal, come and young, then move through the ones that stay voiced like drug and love, and finish with the ones that cut the bar off, cut and stuck.
Rhyming with gun
The ones people actually ask.
What can I rhyme with gun that is not about a gun?
Nearly all of it. Run, one, done, son and none carry no weight of their own, so they take whatever the line gives them. That is the useful part of this word: the sound is everywhere in plain English, so the bar can be about anything and still land on it. Shotgun and handgun are there for when you do want the image.
Why does gun have so few exact rhymes?
Most of what shares gun's ending in the dictionary is surnames. Take those out and the exact list is short, which is why the near groups below do more of the work on this page than they do on most. Come, young, thug, love and cut all sit close enough to hold a bar.
Do gun and guns rhyme with the same words?
No, and the difference matters. Gun ends on the n. Guns ends on that n running into a z sound, so it matches ones, runs, sons and tons instead. Both lists are here: the exact rhymes answer gun, and the first near group answers guns.
Does gun work as an internal rhyme?
Better than most one-syllable words on this site. The n does not slam shut the way a p or a t does, so gun can sit mid line and the bar keeps moving through it. Land run or done later in the same line and the two read as one move rather than two separate rhymes.
Which near rhymes for gun sound closest?
The ones that keep a nasal. Come, some and drum swap the n for an m, young and tongue move it to the back of the mouth, and drunk and junk add a hard stop behind it. All three still hum the way gun does. After that the n is gone and only the uh is left, so drug and love hold a bar longer than cut and stuck do, because the voice stays on instead of snapping shut.
More words
Same treatment, different word.