Words that rhyme with Broadcast
Treated as a word the lyric earns weight from by context, broadcast is also a two-syllable sound-shape on the short /æ/ — one that spills into a fricative. It's a word everyone uses — which is what makes it powerful in a lyric. Only a handful of strict perfect rhymes survive, the family-rhyme list hands over a few solid slants, while the slant-by-vowel pool is enormous. If you're searching for rhymes for broadcast, the shape of the pool is unusual: the deeper map matters more than the headline count. The slant column is doing the heavy lifting; let it.
Open broadcast in RhymeForge →Perfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- blast
- cast
- fast
- past
- vast
- harassed
- surpassed
- forecast
- caste
- classed
- gassed
- glassed
- grassed
- hast
- last
- mast
- passed
- aghast
- amassed
- lambaste
- miscast
- precast
- recast
- bypassed
- outcast
Family rhymes (1 shown)
Same vowel, with a single consonant swapped for one from the same articulatory family. Slant rhymes that pass the ear test.
- jazzed
Only 1 match for broadcast in this type — the slant columns below pick up the slack.
Additive & subtractive (25 shown)
Same core sound, with an extra consonant added (or one dropped) at the end.
- forecasts
- blasts
- castes
- casts
- fasts
- masts
- pasts
- lambastes
- broadcasts
- outcasts
- ass
- bass
- brass
- class
- gas
- glass
- grass
- alas
- harass
- impasse
- surpass
- lasts
- bypass
- newscasts
- outlasts
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- abstract
- adapt
- attached
- attract
- detached
- exact
- impact
- intact
- react
- act
- aunt
- backed
- cant
- craft
- draft
- fact
- grasp
- mask
- matched
- plant
- shaft
- snapped
- task
- trapped
- wrapped
Ending rhymes (5 shown)
A shared unstressed final syllable — the window/shadow slant. Weaker than a perfect rhyme, completely idiomatic in song.
- podcast
- rebroadcast
- contrast
- bombast
- oblast
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- adjust
- assist
- cluster
- consist
- costa
- deceased
- discussed
- exhaust
- exist
- insist
- master
- nasty
- pasta
- pastor
- poster
- reduced
- released
- resist
- robust
- roster
- sister
- tasty
- beast
- boost
- burst
How songwriters use these rhymes
Every time I write broadcast, the next line wants blast.
Between broadcast and jazzed the family rhyme does its quiet work.
Broadcast at the verse, forecasts at the line that follows it.
Broadcast at the line's beginning, abstract at its end, same vowel humming through both.
Broadcast and podcast — the window/shadow trick, two endings sharing one breath.
The broadcast at the start of the line, the adjust tucked inside it, same consonant frame.
Why broadcast rhymes the way it does
The rhyme map for broadcast starts at the vowel — the front-and-flat /æ/, IPA /æ/ — and ends where the line trails off into a fricative. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 49 matches, family rhymes 1, additive and subtractive together 127, assonance 10,519, and consonance 472. The mix gives you options across the board. Strict rhymes for the structural beats, family or assonance for the interior lines. 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. Broadcast 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 broadcast. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open broadcast in RhymeForge above.