Words that rhyme with Appointment
Take appointment apart phonetically and the bones are these: three-syllable, vowel on the mid /ษ/, ending that lands on a nasal-stop cluster. Songs that use it well also reach for something physical nearby. Two readings: as data โ no strict pair turns up at all, no near-perfect family slants exist for this one, the assonance bucket is the workhorse here; as lyric โ an abstract noun. The slant-by-vowel column will carry you a long way past the strict matches.
Open appointment in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (1 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- ointment
Only 1 match for appointment in this type โ the slant columns below pick up the slack.
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 appointment. 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.
- appointments
- disappointments
- disappoint
- reappoint
- anoint
- appoint
- disjoint
- joint
- point
- pointe
- illinois
- maladroit
- redeploy
- adroit
- ahoy
- annoy
- decoy
- deploy
- destroy
- detroit
- employ
- enjoy
- savoy
- boy
- cloy
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- clairvoyant
- flamboyant
- annoyance
- clairvoyance
- flamboyance
- jointness
- deployment
- deployments
- employment
- employments
- enjoyments
- buoyant
- jointed
- pointless
- avoidance
- colloidal
- disloyal
- sequoia
- sequoias
- poignant
- enjoyment
- hoisted
- toilet
- toilets
- rhizoidal
Consonance (7 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- contentment
- enchantment
- presentment
- resentment
- sentiment
- tantamount
- disenchantment
How songwriters use these rhymes
The line ends on appointment; the next one starts on ointment.
No family rhymes for appointment. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
It started as appointment, ended as appointments, same vowel either way.
The vowel between appointment and clairvoyant carries the rhyme โ the consonants step aside.
The appointment at the start of the line, the contentment tucked inside it, same consonant frame.
Why appointment rhymes the way it does
Appointment sits on the centred /ษ/, transcribed /ษ/ in our engine, and closes on the nasal-stop pairing. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 1 match, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 41, assonance 2,389, and consonance 7. That's a narrow strict column with a very deep slant well beneath it. Modern songwriting reads those slants as rhymes; the ear has been trained on them for a century. In practice: start at the top of the perfect column, scan family next, and reach for the assonance pool when the strict matches feel worn. A lyric that uses only strict rhymes for appointment tends to read as dated; the contemporary ear forgives โ and often prefers โ the slant.
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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 appointment. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open appointment in RhymeForge above.