Words that rhyme with Again
Again reads as a word that turns toward the past on the page; phonetically it's two-syllable, anchored on the gliding /eɪ/, ending where it hums to a nasal close. It carries the weight of what was. The word arrives in song as a plain-speech anchor. If you came here looking for what rhymes with again, here's the shape of it: perfect-rhyme territory is narrow, the family-rhyme column adds honest near-rhymes, and the vowel-match pool carries the volume. Modern lyric writing on this word lives almost entirely in the assonance pool.
Open again in RhymeForge →Perfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- amen
- cayenne
- doyenne
- been
- ben
- benne
- bren
- den
- en
- fen
- gen
- glen
- gren
- hen
- ken
- men
- pen
- ren
- renne
- sen
- sten
- ten
- then
- wen
- when
Family rhymes (15 shown)
Same vowel, with a single consonant swapped for one from the same articulatory family. Slant rhymes that pass the ear test.
- condemn
- contemn
- clem
- em
- eng
- femme
- gem
- hem
- leng
- meng
- phlegm
- prem
- rem
- stem
- them
Additive & subtractive (25 shown)
Same core sound, with an extra consonant added (or one dropped) at the end.
- accent
- against
- amend
- amends
- append
- ascend
- ascends
- ascent
- assent
- attend
- attends
- augment
- avenge
- avenged
- befriend
- befriends
- cement
- commence
- commenced
- commend
- commends
- condense
- condensed
- consent
- consents
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- attempt
- attempts
- condemned
- condemns
- contempt
- exempt
- exempts
- unkempt
- abed
- abele
- abeles
- abet
- abreast
- accept
- accepts
- addressed
- adept
- affair
- affairs
- affect
- affects
- afresh
- aggress
- ahead
- allege
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- abstain
- achene
- adjoin
- adjourn
- affine
- agin
- alane
- align
- aline
- alone
- amin
- arraign
- assign
- atone
- attain
- attune
- baboon
- baleen
- balloon
- bassoon
- baton
- began
- begun
- bemoan
- benign
How songwriters use these rhymes
Every time I write again, the next line wants amen.
Hold the again, then let it tilt into condemn.
Again alone, accent in the chorus — the song builds the consonant in.
All night the again turned into attempt, vowel-first, consonants letting go.
Again and abstain share the closing shape, even when the vowels disagree.
Why again rhymes the way it does
The phonology of again is a two-syllable core: the long /eɪ/ (/eɪ/), then it hums to a nasal close. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 36 matches, family rhymes 15, additive and subtractive together 225, assonance 10,637, and consonance 988. 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.
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