Words that rhyme with Abort
Most songwriters treat abort as a workaday word, but the phonology underneath matters: two-syllable, vowel on the /ษหr/ vowel, ending that ends with a liquid-stop kick. It's an unremarkable word until the verse asks it to do something. What the engine returns: there's no shortage of perfect matches, family rhymes come up empty, and the assonance pool runs into the thousands. Lyric-wise, the word reads as an unguarded everyday word. Start strict, scan family, and only reach for assonance when the line wants slant.
Open abort in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- assort
- athwart
- cavort
- comport
- consort
- contort
- deport
- distort
- escort
- exhort
- extort
- report
- resort
- support
- transport
- abhorred
- accord
- adored
- afford
- award
- deplored
- explored
- outscored
- record
- restored
Family rhymes (0 shown)
Same vowel, with a single consonant swapped for one from the same articulatory family. Slant rhymes that pass the ear test.
No family rhymes for abort. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant rhyming.
Additive & subtractive (25 shown)
Same core sound, with an extra consonant added (or one dropped) at the end.
- aborts
- contorts
- distorts
- exhorts
- extorts
- purports
- reports
- resorts
- retorts
- supports
- transports
- abhor
- adore
- ashore
- before
- decor
- deplore
- explore
- galore
- livor
- outscore
- prewar
- rapport
- restore
- wherefore
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- aboard
- reboard
- abhors
- absorb
- accords
- accost
- adores
- adorn
- affords
- aloft
- assault
- awards
- basalt
- conform
- default
- defrost
- deplores
- disgorge
- divorce
- embossed
- endorse
- enforce
- exalt
- exhaust
- explores
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- barite
- barret
- beret
- carat
- carrot
- chlorate
- courter
- curate
- ferret
- ferrite
- fluorite
- forte
- forty
- garret
- gyrate
- karat
- merit
- mortar
- narrate
- parrot
- pirate
- playwright
- porta
- porter
- pyrite
How songwriters use these rhymes
You said abort, I heard assort, neither of us was wrong.
No family rhymes for abort. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
From abort to aborts, a consonant arrives and the rhyme reshapes.
Track the vowel from abort to aboard and you have the chorus.
Inside the line, abort echoes barite on consonant alone.
Why abort rhymes the way it does
Abort is built around the back /ษหr/ (/ษหr/); it's two-syllable and lands on a liquid-into-stop cluster. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 77 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 157, assonance 8,080, and consonance 115. That's a deep perfect column. The song can ride strict rhymes from end to end, only sliding into assonance when the line needs to surprise. Writing-tip: don't end every line with the strict rhyme. Use the slant columns at the joints and the strict matches at the seams. Abort works hardest when the slant carries the verse and the strict match closes the chorus.
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About RhymeForge
RhymeForge is the free rhyme finder built into Undercover Zest. It searches over 54,000 words across five rhyme types: perfect, family, additive, assonance, and consonance. It is built for songwriters, not crossword solvers, and the slant-rhyme classifications are tuned accordingly.
This page is a static snapshot of the rhymes for abort. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open abort in RhymeForge above.