Top 72 Words That Rhyme with Whale (With Meanings)

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Welcome to this guide on the best words that rhyme with whale!

Here you’ll find the top 72 words and phrases for rhyming the word ‘whale’.

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Words That Rhyme With Whale

  • Ail – to cause physical or emotional pain
  • Ale – a type of beer made from malted barley
  • Assail – to attack or criticize strongly
  • Avail – to be of use or benefit; to take advantage of
  • Bail – to release someone from custody by providing a sum of money
  • Bale – a large bundle of something tightly bound with cords or wire
  • Bewail – to express great sadness, regret or disappointment
  • Bobtail – a horse with its tail cut short
  • Braille – a writing system for the visually impaired using raised dots
  • Carrell – a small cubicle or desk in a library or office
  • Countervail – to offset or counterbalance something
  • Curtail – to cut short or reduce in quantity or duration
  • Dale – a small valley
  • Derail – to cause to go off course or deviate from a plan or direction
  • Detail – a small or minor part or aspect of something
  • Email – a means of sending electronic messages over the internet
  • Entail – to involve as a necessary or essential part or consequence
  • Exhale – to breathe out air or vapor
  • Fail – to be unsuccessful or not meet expectations
  • Faille – a soft, light-weight woven fabric with a slight ribbed texture
  • Fingernail – the hard covering at the end of a finger
  • Flail – to wave or swing wildly
  • Foresail – a sail on the forward part of a ship
  • Frail – weak or delicate, often due to old age or illness
  • Gale – a very strong wind
  • Grail – a cup or chalice that is the object of a knightly quest in medieval legend
  • Gunwale – the upper edge of the side of a boat or ship
  • Hail – to greet or acclaim enthusiastically
  • Hale – strong and healthy
  • Hangnail – A small piece of torn skin at the side or base of a fingernail.
  • Hightail – Move quickly or hurriedly away.
  • Impale – Pierce or transfix with a sharp instrument.
  • Inhale – Breathe in.
  • Jail – A place for the confinement of people accused or convicted of a crime.
  • Kale – A cabbage of a variety that bears erect stems with large leaves and no compact head.
  • Lugsail – A large sail that hangs from a yard hoisted by a halyard to the head of a lower mast of a square-rigged vessel.
  • Mail – Letters and packages conveyed by the postal system.
  • Mainsail – The principal sail on a mainmast.
  • Male – Of or denoting the sex that produces small, typically motile gametes, especially spermatozoa, with which a female may be fertilized or inseminated to produce offspring.
  • Martingale – A device that is attached to a horse’s girth, passes between its front legs, and fastens to the noseband or reins, preventing it from raising its head too high.
  • Monorail – A railway system in which the track consists of a single rail, typically elevated, with trains suspended from it.
  • Nail – A small metal spike with a broadened flat head, driven typically into wood with a hammer to join things together or to serve as a peg or hook.
  • Nonpareil – Having no match or equal; unrivaled.
  • Pail – A bucket.
  • Pale – Light in color or shade; containing little color or pigment.
  • Pellmell – In a confused, rushed, or disorderly manner.
  • Pigtail – A lock or braid of hair hanging down at the back of the head.
  • Ponytail – A hairstyle in which the hair is tied up high at the back of the head so that it hangs down like a pony’s tail.
  • Prevail – Prove more powerful or superior.
  • Quail – A small short-tailed Old World game bird resembling a tiny partridge, typically having brown camouflaged plumage.
  • Quale – A word or phrase supposed to distinguish one class of things from another.
  • Rail – A bar or series of bars fixed on upright supports or attached to a wall or ceiling, serving as part of a barrier or framework.
  • Sail – A piece of material extended on a mast to catch the wind and propel a boat or ship or other vessels.
  • Sale – The exchange of a commodity for money; the action of selling something.
  • Scale – Each of the small, thin horny or bony plates protecting the skin of fish and reptiles, typically overlapping one another.
  • Shale – Soft, finely stratified sedimentary rock that formed from consolidated mud or clay and can be split easily into fragile slabs.
  • Snail – A mollusk with a coiled shell, typically able to move slowly along a surface by means of a broad, flat foot.
  • Stale – No longer fresh and pleasant to eat; hard, musty, or dry.
  • Swallowtail – A forked tail like that of a swallow, especially as a characteristic feature of a coat, dress, or other garment.
  • Taffrail – A taffrail is the handrail around the rear of a ship’s deck.
  • Tail – A tail is the rear end or the prolongation of something.
  • Tale – A tale is a narrative or story.
  • Tattletale – A tattletale is someone who reveals secrets or tells tales out of school.
  • Topsail – A topsail is a sail set above the topgallant on a sailing ship.
  • Trail – A trail is a path or track made by someone or something.
  • Travail – Travail means painful or laborious effort.
  • Unveil – To unveil means to uncover or reveal something that was hidden.
  • Vale – A vale is a valley.
  • Veil – A veil is a piece of fabric worn by women to cover the face or head.
  • Wail – A wail is a loud, high-pitched cry of pain, grief, or anger.
  • Wale – A wale is a raised ridge on the surface of something, like a fabric or a person’s skin.
  • Wassail – Wassail is a hot spiced cider traditionally drunk during Christmas festivities.



Written by Gabriel Cruz - Foodie, Animal Lover, Slang & Language Enthusiast