Words that rhyme with Behold
Behold is a two-syllable word built around the short /ษ/, and it closes on a hard stop. Common words like this gain weight from the company they keep on the line. Its job in a lyric is a low-register anchor, holding down whatever line it lands in. Search rhymes for behold long enough and you notice the pattern: the perfect column carries weight on its own, family rhymes are simply absent, and the assonance count climbs into the thousands. Build the chorus from the strict list; the slants are saved for the bridge.
Open behold in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- controlled
- enrolled
- patrolled
- uphold
- withhold
- cajoled
- consoled
- enfold
- extolled
- foretold
- outsold
- paroled
- remold
- resold
- unfold
- unsold
- untold
- revolt
- bold
- cold
- fold
- gold
- mold
- old
- rolled
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 behold. 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.
- upholds
- control
- parole
- patrol
- aholds
- unfolds
- enroll
- ago
- dunno
- explode
- hello
- cajole
- extol
- pistole
- bolds
- colds
- folds
- golds
- holds
- molds
- olds
- abode
- below
- bestow
- bestowed
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- exposed
- opposed
- supposed
- controls
- creoles
- disclosed
- disposed
- enclosed
- enrolls
- paroles
- patrols
- revolts
- bemoaned
- composed
- condoned
- consoles
- deposed
- dethroned
- disowned
- eloped
- extols
- foreclosed
- postponed
- proposed
- transposed
Ending rhymes (0 shown)
A shared unstressed final syllable โ the window/shadow slant. Weaker than a perfect rhyme, completely idiomatic in song.
No ending rhymes for behold โ its final syllable carries the stress, so the columns above do the work.
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- rebuild
- revealed
- afield
- appealed
- availed
- compelled
- concealed
- corralled
- curtailed
- dispelled
- emailed
- entailed
- excelled
- expelled
- fulfilled
- marvelled
- prevailed
- propelled
- rebelled
- refilled
- regaled
- repealed
- repelled
- upheld
- withheld
How songwriters use these rhymes
I keep on saying behold, and the night keeps saying controlled back.
No family rhymes for behold. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
It started as behold, ended as upholds, same vowel either way.
Track the vowel from behold to exposed and you have the chorus.
No ending rhymes for behold โ its final syllable carries the stress, so the columns above do the work.
The behold at the start of the line, the rebuild tucked inside it, same consonant frame.
Why behold rhymes the way it does
Behold is two-syllable, its rhyme-relevant vowel sitting on the open /ษ/, then it closes on a hard stop. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 76 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 432, assonance 5,925, and consonance 276. 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. 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. Behold 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 behold. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open behold in RhymeForge above.