Words that rhyme with Attempted
Treated as a workaday word, attempted is also a three-syllable sound-shape on the front /ษ/ โ one that lands on a closed syllable. It's an unremarkable word until the verse asks it to do something. The headline counts: there are essentially no strict perfect rhymes, no family rhymes survive the strict family test, and the assonance column dwarfs the others. The lyric headline: it works as a quotidian anchor. Assonance is where the modern songwriting toolkit lives for this one.
Open attempted in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (3 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- exempted
- preempted
- empted
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 attempted. 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.
- attempt
- contempt
- exempt
- unkempt
- empt
- tempt
- infrared
- interbred
- overfed
- pirouette
- abed
- ahead
- behead
- embed
- imbed
- instead
- misled
- retread
- sayed
- unread
- unsaid
- unwed
- bed
- bled
- bread
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- attempting
- exempting
- preempting
- preemptive
- redemptive
- empting
- tempting
- dissembling
- unblemished
- templet
- appellants
- aquarists
- replenished
- temptress
- texted
- amended
- appellant
- appended
- aquarist
- ascended
- attended
- augmented
- befriended
- cemented
- commended
Consonance (3 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- emptied
- prompted
- trumpeted
How songwriters use these rhymes
You said attempted, I heard exempted, neither of us was wrong.
No family rhymes for attempted. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
She gave the attempted away, then watched it come back as attempt.
Track the vowel from attempted to attempting and you have the chorus.
Attempted and emptied: the vowels are different but the consonants are kin.
Why attempted rhymes the way it does
Attempted is three-syllable, its rhyme-relevant vowel sitting on the short /ษ/, then it lands on a stopped consonant. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 3 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 59, assonance 13,062, and consonance 3. 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. Writing-tip: don't end every line with the strict rhyme. Use the slant columns at the joints and the strict matches at the seams. Attempted works hardest when the slant carries the verse and the strict match closes the chorus.
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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 attempted. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open attempted in RhymeForge above.