Words that rhyme with extensive
Top rhymes for extensive
expensive, offensive, defensive and comprehensive
11 common words rhyme with extensive. The most common are expensive, offensive, defensive and comprehensive.
Perfect rhymes for extensive
2 syllables
4 syllables
- comprehensive
- inexpensive
- apprehensive
- inoffensive
- hypertensive
5 syllables
- counteroffensive
Near rhymes for extensive
These share the stressed vowel or the ending but not every sound. Songwriters call them slant rhymes.
- consequences
- expenses
- incentive
- senses
- defenses
- fences
- offenses
- preventive
- attentive
- inventive
- commences
- inferences
- pretenses
- biosciences
- dispenses
- inattentive
- disincentive
- impressive
- progressive
- aggressive
- census
- excessive
- consensus
- successive
- oppressive
- expressive
- obsessive
- expansive
- depressive
- possessive
- repressive
- regressive
- recessive
- reflexive
- redemptive
- unimpressive
- offensives
- endive
- attention
- potential
How extensive sounds
| Pronunciation | /ɪkˈstɛnsɪv/ |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (ex-TEN-sive) |
| Stress pattern | da-DUM-da |
| Rhyme sound | -ɛnsɪv |
Extensive 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 extensive?
- The most common rhymes for extensive are expensive, offensive, defensive, comprehensive, intensive and inexpensive.
- How many words rhyme with extensive?
- We found 11 common perfect rhymes for extensive, plus 40 near rhymes.
- How many syllables are in extensive?
- Extensive has three syllables, with the stress on the second.