Words that rhyme with Career
A two-syllable word that reads as a plain-speech anchor, career sits on the /ษหr/ that mid-Atlantic ears class as one vowel and ends on a liquid that pulls the line forward. Common words like this gain weight from the company they keep on the line. Engine returns: strict rhymes are abundant, no family-rhyme matches turn up, the vowel-only slant pool is deep enough to write a whole album from. Lyric returns: a plain-speech anchor. Start strict, scan family, and only reach for assonance when the line wants slant.
Open career in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- adhere
- amir
- appear
- austere
- cashier
- cohere
- emir
- frontier
- premier
- premiere
- rainier
- revere
- severe
- sincere
- unclear
- veneer
- wazir
- zaire
- beare
- beer
- bere
- cheer
- clear
- dear
- deer
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 career. 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.
- adhered
- adheres
- appeared
- appears
- arrears
- careers
- cashiered
- cohered
- coheres
- frontiers
- premiered
- premieres
- premiers
- revered
- reveres
- veneers
- cashiers
- beard
- beards
- beers
- cheered
- cheers
- cleared
- clears
- eared
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- abridge
- abridged
- abyss
- acquit
- acquits
- addict
- addicts
- admins
- admit
- admits
- adrift
- affixed
- afflict
- afflicts
- akin
- amid
- amidst
- amiss
- assist
- assists
- befit
- befits
- begin
- begins
- berlin
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- abhor
- admire
- adore
- afar
- afire
- ajar
- allure
- ashore
- aspire
- assure
- bazaar
- bazar
- before
- bizarre
- bonjour
- boyar
- brochure
- cigar
- couture
- decor
- demure
- deplore
- detour
- dinar
- endear
How songwriters use these rhymes
The line ends on career; the next one starts on adhere.
No family rhymes for career. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
Career at the verse, adhered at the line that follows it.
All night the career turned into abridge, vowel-first, consonants letting go.
Career and abhor share the closing shape, even when the vowels disagree.
Why career rhymes the way it does
To understand why career rhymes the way it does, start with the vowel โ the rhotic schwa, written /ษหr/ โ and the ending, which flows into the next line via a liquid. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 94 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 92, assonance 8,185, and consonance 419. 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. Career 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 career. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open career in RhymeForge above.