Words that rhyme with Again
The phonetic facts first: again is two-syllable, the rhyme-bearing vowel is the gliding /eษช/, and the line trails through a nasal hum. It carries the weight of what was. What the engine returns: there are a few perfect rhymes, no more, family-rhyme matches contribute a small near-perfect column, and the slant pool, matched on vowel alone, is huge. Lyric-wise, the word reads as a household-word. The slant pool is huge enough that you'll never need to repeat a rhyme.
Open again in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- amen
- men
- pen
- then
- when
- cayenne
- been
- hen
- ten
- wen
- wren
- yen
- doyenne
- madeleine
- ben
- benne
- bren
- den
- en
- fen
- gen
- glen
- gren
- ken
- ren
Family rhymes (20 shown)
Same vowel, with a single consonant swapped for one from the same articulatory family. Slant rhymes that pass the ear test.
- condemn
- gem
- stem
- clem
- eng
- femme
- hem
- prem
- them
- contemn
- em
- leng
- meng
- phlegm
- rem
- mayhem
- ginseng
- bethlehem
- diadem
- diltiazem
Additive & subtractive (25 shown)
Same core sound, with an extra consonant added (or one dropped) at the end.
- accent
- against
- attend
- cement
- consent
- defend
- defense
- depend
- event
- expense
- extend
- extent
- offense
- percent
- pretend
- prevent
- revenge
- amend
- amends
- ascend
- ascends
- ascent
- assent
- attends
- augment
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- attempt
- exempt
- accept
- affair
- affect
- ahead
- alleged
- arrest
- assess
- aware
- collect
- compare
- confess
- connect
- correct
- declare
- declared
- despair
- detect
- direct
- effect
- elect
- except
- express
- expressed
Ending rhymes (0 shown)
A shared unstressed final syllable โ the window/shadow slant. Weaker than a perfect rhyme, completely idiomatic in song.
No ending rhymes for again โ its final syllable carries the stress, so the columns above do the work.
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- alone
- balloon
- campaign
- cartoon
- cocaine
- complain
- concern
- contain
- cuisine
- decline
- define
- design
- disdain
- divine
- domain
- eighteen
- explain
- fifteen
- insane
- machine
- maintain
- marine
- milan
- obtain
- refrain
How songwriters use these rhymes
He left me the again; I gave him the amen back.
The again in the line, the condemn at the end of it โ same vowel, different door.
Again at the verse, accent at the line that follows it.
All night the again turned into attempt, vowel-first, consonants letting go.
No ending rhymes for again โ its final syllable carries the stress, so the columns above do the work.
Listen for the consonant under again and you'll hear it again under alone.
Why again rhymes the way it does
The phonology of again is a two-syllable core: the long /eษช/ (/eษช/), then it lets the line ring through a nasal. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 49 matches, family rhymes 20, additive and subtractive together 263, assonance 12,252, and consonance 1311. 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. Again 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 again. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open again in RhymeForge above.