Nerve rhymes with:
unnerve, conserve, curve, d'oeuvre, deserve, herve, hors-d-oeuvre, irv, irve, merv, mirv, observe, preserve, reserve, serv, serve, swerve, underserve, unnerve, verve, zurve
Nerve sounds like:
nairobi, nearby, nemeroff, nervy, norba, norby, norweb, nureyev