Words that rhyme with August
You can read august two ways: as a household-word, or as a two-syllable shape on a back-mid /ส/ that spills into a fricative. Its everydayness lets the song surprise around it. Two readings: as data โ no strict perfect rhymes exist in our dictionary, no family-rhyme matches turn up, the assonance pool has more matches than any verse will use; as lyric โ a household-word. When strict matches feel exhausted, the assonance column is where you go fishing.
Open august in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (0 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
No strict perfect rhymes for august in our dictionary. The slant columns below carry the load.
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 august. 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.
- aha
- allot
- bourgeois
- forgot
- hurrah
- huzzah
- markkaa
- pasha
- patois
- surat
- voila
- ah
- awe
- bah
- baht
- blah
- blot
- bois
- bossed
- bott
- bought
- bra
- caught
- cha
- clot
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- calmest
- honest
- hottest
- modest
- oddest
- promised
- boggled
- boxes
- foxes
- oxen
- toggled
- toxin
- constant
- constants
- monstrous
- argot
- arson
- boggles
- carpet
- charlotte
- coccus
- consul
- dobson
- droplet
- farrant
Consonance (7 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- biggest
- druggist
- vaguest
- pigsty
- foggiest
- phagocyte
- smoggiest
How songwriters use these rhymes
No strict perfect rhymes for august in our dictionary. The slant columns below carry the load.
No family rhymes for august. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
She gave the august away, then watched it come back as aha.
What we called august, the lyric heard as calmest.
The august at the start of the line, the biggest tucked inside it, same consonant frame.
Why august rhymes the way it does
August is built around a back-mid /ส/ (/ส/); it's two-syllable and trails off into a fricative. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 0 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 84, assonance 7,699, 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. Practical guidance: read the song aloud and listen for where a slant would tighten the line. Strict rhymes are the structural skeleton; the slant columns are where the personality of the lyric lives. With august, the slant work is doing more weight-bearing than it looks.
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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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