Words that rhyme with Accordance
For the rhyme search, what matters about accordance is this: three-syllable, vowel on the short /æ/, ending that softens into a fricative tail. It's restless — the line behind it tends to move. In a song, the word is a word that wants concrete rhymes to ground it. Behind it, the rhyme map shows perfect rhymes simply aren't available, there's a small family-rhyme pool to draw from, and the vowel-only slant column is the deepest of the five. Treat the assonance list as the main shelf — the strict column is the footnote.
Open accordance in RhymeForge →Perfect rhymes (3 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- importance
- jordans
- wardens
Family rhymes (1 shown)
Same vowel, with a single consonant swapped for one from the same articulatory family. Slant rhymes that pass the ear test.
- shortens
Only 1 match for accordance in this type — the slant columns below pick up the slack.
Additive & subtractive (25 shown)
Same core sound, with an extra consonant added (or one dropped) at the end.
- across
- bashaw
- emboss
- foresaw
- guffaw
- lacrosse
- macaw
- recross
- redraw
- withdraw
- aw
- caw
- chaunce
- chaw
- claw
- cos
- coss
- craw
- cross
- daw
- dos
- doss
- draw
- dross
- faw
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- conformance
- discordant
- performance
- abortions
- contortions
- distortions
- misfortunes
- proportions
- shortness
- consortiums
- absorbent
- apportioned
- proportioned
- remorseless
- baldness
- cordless
- cordoned
- hoarseness
- mordant
- important
- abortion
- afforded
- apportion
- assortment
- comportment
Consonance (2 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- weirdness
- preparedness
Only 2 matches for accordance in this type — the slant columns below pick up the slack.
How songwriters use these rhymes
Every time I write accordance, the next line wants importance.
Accordance here, shortens there, the ear says they rhyme.
She gave the accordance away, then watched it come back as across.
Track the vowel from accordance to conformance and you have the chorus.
Inside the line, accordance echoes weirdness on consonant alone.
Why accordance rhymes the way it does
The rhyme map for accordance starts at the vowel — the flat /æ/, IPA /æ/ — and ends where the line lets the line dissolve into a fricative. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 3 matches, family rhymes 1, additive and subtractive together 56, assonance 11,135, and consonance 2. The mix gives you options across the board. Strict rhymes for the structural beats, family or assonance for the interior lines. The songwriter's move is to pick a small set of strict rhymes for the chorus and open up to family and assonance through the verses. Accordance rewards slant rhyming because the strict pool, when over-used, calls attention to itself.
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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 accordance. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open accordance in RhymeForge above.