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Welcome to this guide on the best words that rhyme with jail!
Here you’ll find the top 71 words and phrases for rhyming the word ‘jail’.
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Words That Rhyme With Jail
- Ail – to cause physical or emotional pain or trouble; to be unwell
- Ale – a type of beer
- Assail – to attack violently with blows or words
- Avail – to be of use or benefit; to help or assist
- Bail – the temporary release of an accused person awaiting trial, sometimes with a monetary deposit as a guarantee
- Bale – a large bundle of goods or merchandise tightly bound with cords or wires
- Bewail – to express great sorrow or regret for something
- Bobtail – a type of horse with a short tail; to cut or shorten the tail of an animal
- Braille – a system of writing using raised dots that can be read by touch, typically used by people who are visually impaired
- Carrell – a small individual study or office within a larger room
- Countervail – to act or react with equal force or power; to compensate or make up for
- Curtail – to shorten or reduce
- Dale – a valley, typically one that is broad and low
- Derail – to cause a train or tram to leave its tracks accidentally
- Detail – a small individual feature or part of something
- Email – a message sent electronically over a computer network
- Entail – to involve or imply as a necessary condition or consequence
- Exhale – to breathe out air
- Fail – to be unsuccessful in achieving a goal or objective
- Faille – a soft, fine-ribbed silk or rayon fabric
- Fingernail – the hard, flat covering on the end of a finger
- Flail – to wave or swing wildly; a tool for threshing grain
- Foresail – a sail set forward of the mainmast on a sailing ship
- Frail – weak and delicate; easily damaged or broken
- Gale – a very strong wind
- Grail – a cup or chalice that in medieval legend was associated with unusual powers
- Gunwale – the upper edge of a ship’s or boat’s side
- Hale – strong and healthy; free from illness or disease
- Hangnail – a small torn piece of skin next to a fingernail or toenail
- Hightail – To leave or run away quickly, especially to avoid danger or trouble.
- Impale – To pierce or transfix with a sharp object.
- Inhale – To breathe in air or another substance.
- Kale – A type of cabbage with curly leaves that is often used in salads and other dishes.
- Lugsail – A type of sail that is four-cornered and hangs from a yard at an angle to the mast.
- Mail – Letters, packages, and other items sent through the postal service.
- Mainsail – The largest sail on a ship, attached to the main mast.
- Male – Of or relating to the sex that is typically characterized by the presence of sperm-producing organs.
- Martingale – A strap or set of straps that goes from the girth to the noseband of a horse, used to control the horse’s head carriage.
- Monorail – A railway in which the trains run on a single rail.
- Nail – A small metal spike with a broadened flat head, driven into wood or another material 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; not dark.
- Pellmell – In a rushed, disorderly manner.
- Pigtail – A braid of hair that hangs down the back of the head.
- Ponytail – A hairstyle in which the hair is pulled back and tied together at the back of the head.
- Prevail – To be victorious; to prove more powerful or influential.
- Quail – A small, short-tailed game bird.
- Quale – A quality or attribute, especially one that is difficult to describe or express.
- Rail – A bar or series of bars, typically fixed on upright supports, serving as a barrier or fence or used to hang things on.
- Sail – A piece of material extended on a mast to catch the wind and propel a boat or ship.
- Sale – The exchange of goods or services for money.
- Scale – A system of ordered marks at fixed intervals used as a reference standard in measurement.
- Shale – A soft, finely stratified sedimentary rock that formed from consolidated mud or clay.
- Snail – A small, slow-moving land mollusk with a spiral shell.
- Stale – No longer fresh and pleasant to eat; hard, musty, or dry.
- Swallowtail – A type of tail on a bird or butterfly in which the outer feathers are longer than the others, giving it a distinctive shape.
- Taffrail – The upper part of the stern of a ship, usually decorated with carved wood or ornamental metalwork.
- Tail – the hindmost part of an animal, especially when extended beyond the rest of the body or used for balance
- Tale – a fictitious or true narrative or story, especially one that is imaginatively recounted
- Tattletale – a person, especially a child, who reveals secrets or informs on others; a telltale
- Topsail – a sail set above another sail to increase the area exposed to the wind
- Trail – a path or track, especially one made by the passage of people or animals
- Travail – painful or laborious effort
- Unveil – make (something) visible or known for the first time
- Vale – a valley
- Veil – a piece of fine material worn by women to protect or conceal the face
- Wail – a prolonged high-pitched cry of pain, grief, or anger
- Wale – a raised mark on the skin, especially one made by a blow from a whip or a rod
- Wassail – a spiced ale or mulled wine drunk during celebrations for Twelfth Night and Christmas Eve
- Whale – a very large marine mammal with a streamlined hairless body, a horizontal tail fin, and a blowhole on top of the head for breathing