Words that rhyme with Award
You can read award two ways: as a word everyone uses, or as a two-syllable shape on the open /ษหr/ that closes on a liquid feeding into a stop. Plain-speech words like this earn weight through context. Sketch the rhyme pool and you get perfect rhymes turn up in abundance, the family-rhyme bucket is bare, and the assonance well is bottomless. Sketch the lyric role and you get a household-word. Pull from the perfect column first; it has range you can use across a whole song.
Open award in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- abhorred
- aboard
- accord
- adored
- afford
- deplored
- explored
- outscored
- reboard
- record
- restored
- abort
- assort
- athwart
- cavort
- comport
- consort
- contort
- deport
- distort
- escort
- exhort
- extort
- report
- resort
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 award. 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.
- accords
- affords
- awards
- records
- rewards
- towards
- abhor
- adore
- ashore
- before
- decor
- deplore
- explore
- galore
- livor
- outscore
- prewar
- rapport
- restore
- wherefore
- boards
- bordes
- chords
- cords
- fjords
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- abhors
- aborts
- absorb
- adores
- adorn
- appalled
- belonged
- conform
- contorts
- deplores
- disgorge
- distorts
- divorce
- endorse
- enforce
- enthralled
- exhorts
- explores
- extorts
- forewarn
- forlorn
- outscores
- perforce
- perform
- prolonged
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- adhered
- allured
- appeared
- aspired
- assured
- attired
- cashiered
- cohered
- compared
- declared
- despaired
- endeared
- endured
- ensnared
- ensured
- expired
- matured
- obscured
- premiered
- prepared
- procured
- repaired
- retired
- revered
- secured
How songwriters use these rhymes
He left me the award; I gave him the abhorred back.
No family rhymes for award. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
She gave the award away, then watched it come back as accords.
All night the award turned into abhors, vowel-first, consonants letting go.
The award at the start of the line, the adhered tucked inside it, same consonant frame.
Why award rhymes the way it does
To understand why award rhymes the way it does, start with the vowel โ the broad /ษหr/, written /ษหr/ โ and the ending, which lands on a liquid-into-stop cluster. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 79 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 145, assonance 8,108, and consonance 137. That's a deep perfect column. The song can ride strict rhymes from end to end, only sliding into assonance when the line needs to surprise. In the room with a guitar: write toward the strict rhyme first, then go back through and replace the obvious ones with the assonance matches that earned their place. Award is a word that benefits from the second pass.
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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 award. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open award in RhymeForge above.