"streit"

[Odessa Dawn]

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Matthew 26

[SUP]5[/SUP]"But not during the Passover celebration," they agreed, "or the people may riot."

riot /

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right /ra

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While I was looking for words that rhyme with the word riot because it seems has two syllables. I thought it could be rhyme with the word right . However, another problem has emerged when I found that the word "streit" among a collection of words that have been said that they are have the same pronunciation but different spelling and meaning.

What rhymes with right?
Best Answer
Some words that rhyme with right are:
bite, blight, bright, byte, cite, Dwight, fight, flight, fright, height, kite, knight, light, lite, might, mite, night, plight, quite, rite, sight, site, sleight, slight, spite, sprite, streit, tight, trite, white, wight, wright, write.
Bite, bright, might, sight, light, kite, knight, night, and more...
What rhymes with right

I checked "streit" up in Collins Dictionary but as you see: "Sorry, no results for “streit” in the Collins English Dictionary."

Question: Will you transcript the word "streit" please?

P.S.: I haven’t seen the word "streit" before, but I am familiar with another word since it is being used in the news media; "the Strait of Hormuz."
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[5jj]

'Streit', /ʃtraɪt/, is a German word

 

[Tdol]

I thought it could [strike]be[/strike] rhyme with the word right .

Only with great difficulty and by sacrificing natural pronunciation. It's the sort of thing you could get away with in a song. ;-)

 

[BobK]

:up: I remember a slogan popular in the early-eighties during the miners' strike: 'Fight for the right to work'; it played on that partial rhyme.

b

PS ('Straits of Hormuz' are akin to the 'strait' in straitjacket and strait-laced; cognate with French étroit.)

 

[5jj]

'Straits of Hormuz'

I went swimming there once and nearly drowned. I suppose you could say that I was in dire straits.

I'm off.