Nearest rhymes with:
dearest, severest, aquarist, armbrust, barest, buttressed, dearest, deforest, direst, embarrassed, florist, forest, forrest, guitarist, interest, jurist, laforest, merest, noninterest, pendergrast, psychiatrist, purest, rainforest, rarest, reforest, severest, terraced, tourist
Nearest sounds like:
narcissist, narrowest, nearsighted, new-york-city, newmarket, norquist, norwest, nourished, nursed