c
-at
cat
🎵 The -at word family:
Spin the wheel to change the beginning sound and hear new rhyming words! Click any word to hear it said aloud.
Words that share the same rime (ending vowel + consonant pattern) form a word family. In the -at family: cat, bat, hat, mat, rat, sat — they all rhyme because they share the ending "-at".
Every syllable splits into two parts: the onset (consonant sounds before the vowel) and the rime (the vowel and everything after). Learning rimes is one of the most powerful shortcuts for reading new words!
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Last reviewed: April 2026