Words that rhyme with According
Singers reaching for according find a plain-speech anchor on the surface and a three-syllable core on the clipped /ษช/ underneath โ one that rings out through a nasal. It's a word everyone uses โ which is what makes it powerful in a lyric. Sketch the rhyme pool and you get perfect rhymes are thin on the ground, family-rhyme matches contribute a small near-perfect column, and the assonance well runs into four figures. Sketch the lyric role and you get a plain-speech anchor. Modern songwriting on this word is an assonance-first practice.
Open according in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- affording
- awarding
- rewarding
- aborting
- cavorting
- consorting
- deporting
- distorting
- exhorting
- exporting
- extorting
- nonsporting
- purporting
- reporting
- resorting
- supporting
- transporting
- boarding
- hoarding
- warding
- importing
- porting
- shorting
- snorting
- sorting
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.
- cortin
Only 1 match for according in this type โ 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.
- recordings
- boardings
- prerecord
- underscored
- unexplored
- untoward
- abhorred
- aboard
- accord
- adored
- afford
- award
- deplored
- explored
- ignored
- implored
- outscored
- reboard
- record
- restored
- reward
- toward
- underinsured
- board
- bored
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- absorbing
- accorded
- adorning
- awarded
- conforming
- divorcing
- endorsing
- enforcing
- forewarning
- performing
- recorded
- reforming
- rewarded
- transforming
- aborted
- abortive
- aortic
- assaulting
- assorted
- defaulting
- defrosting
- endorphin
- escorted
- exalting
- exhausting
Consonance (4 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- bordering
- joyriding
- ordering
- reordering
How songwriters use these rhymes
You said according, I heard affording, neither of us was wrong.
Between according and cortin the family rhyme does its quiet work.
According alone, recordings in the chorus โ the song builds the consonant in.
Track the vowel from according to absorbing and you have the chorus.
Inside the line, according echoes bordering on consonant alone.
Why according rhymes the way it does
Pull according apart phonetically and you get a three-syllable word with the high /ษช/ (/ษช/) as the rhyme-bearing vowel; the close lets the nasal carry the tail. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 29 matches, family rhymes 1, additive and subtractive together 103, assonance 10,028, and consonance 4. The mix gives you options across the board. Strict rhymes for the structural beats, family or assonance for the interior lines. What matters when you're writing: the ear forgives slants in service of meaning. If the strict rhyme is the predictable word, the assonance match will usually hit harder. According is a word where the slant choice almost always reads as more thoughtful than the obvious end-rhyme.
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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 according. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open according in RhymeForge above.