Words that rhyme with delicious
Top rhymes for delicious
suspicious, ambitious, vicious and malicious
16 common words rhyme with delicious. The most common are suspicious, ambitious, vicious and malicious.
Perfect rhymes for delicious
2 syllables
3 syllables
4 syllables
- superstitious
- expeditious
- surreptitious
- repetitious
Show 4 rare words
- factitious
- injudicious
- overambitious
- lubricious
Near rhymes for delicious
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 delicious sounds
| Pronunciation | /dɪˈlɪʃəs/ |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (de-LI-cious) |
| Stress pattern | da-DUM-da |
| Rhyme sound | -ɪʃəs |
Delicious 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 delicious?
- The most common rhymes for delicious are suspicious, ambitious, vicious, malicious, fictitious and nutritious.
- How many words rhyme with delicious?
- We found 16 common perfect rhymes and 4 rarer words for delicious, plus 39 near rhymes.
- How many syllables are in delicious?
- Delicious has three syllables, with the stress on the second.