Words That Rhyme With Pain

There are 98 words that rhyme with pain — here are 40 options for rap and songwriting.

Practice the first 5 words below, one line at a time. The same words stay with you through mic setup and replay.

Rhyming with pain powers rap's most emotional verses — rain, gain, brain, chain, main, explain, remain, and sustain. It is the rhyme for turning struggle into story: rain and chain bring imagery, gain and sustain bring the lesson. Stack three of them and a hard verse practically writes itself.

Every drop of struggle felt just like the rain But I turned it all to power, made a profit off the pain

98 words that rhyme with pain

1. bane
2. brain
3. cane
4. chain
5. complain
6. contain
7. crane
8. domain
9. explain
10. gain
11. grain
12. lane
13. main
14. maintain
15. mane
16. obtain
17. plain
18. plane
19. rain
20. refrain
21. reign
22. remain
23. restrain
24. sane
25. stain
26. strain
27. sustain
28. train
29. vain
30. vane
31. wane
32. abstain
33. again
34. alane
35. arcane
36. arraign
37. ascertain
38. attain
39. blain
40. butane

Rhymes are drawn from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary and filtered to real, usable words. Try them aloud; pronunciation and accent can affect the rhyme.