Words that rhyme with Cedar
You can read cedar two ways: as a common-tongue word, or as a two-syllable shape on the open /ษหr/ that flows into the next line via a liquid. It's an unremarkable word until the verse asks it to do something. The assonance count climbs into the thousands, family-rhyme territory comes up dry, and there are a few perfect rhymes, no more. Songwriters who arrive looking for what rhymes with cedar find the same uneven map: the pull is toward slant work. Reach for assonance first; the strict list is the safety net underneath it.
Open cedar in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (24 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- breeder
- feeder
- leader
- lieder
- reader
- reeder
- speeder
- beater
- cheater
- dieter
- eater
- heater
- liter
- meter
- metre
- neater
- peter
- praetor
- skeeter
- sweeter
- teeter
- treater
- depleter
- repeater
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 cedar. 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.
- breeders
- cedars
- feeders
- leaders
- readers
- reeders
- speeders
- agree
- albee
- allee
- banshee
- chablis
- curie
- debris
- decree
- degree
- esprit
- foresee
- indri
- lessee
- louie
- marquee
- marquis
- payee
- rupee
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- seater
- beaters
- cheaters
- eaters
- heaters
- liters
- metered
- meters
- metres
- petered
- peters
- preterm
- skeeters
- teetered
- teeters
- treaters
- beaker
- beamer
- beaver
- beavers
- beeper
- beepers
- bleacher
- bleachers
- bleaker
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- pleiad
- adder
- beady
- beedie
- bidder
- birder
- bladder
- broader
- cheddar
- chowder
- cider
- coder
- coward
- crowder
- deader
- deedy
- fired
- flowered
- fodder
- geoid
- girder
- glider
- glowered
- greedy
- guider
How songwriters use these rhymes
The line ends on cedar; the next one starts on breeder.
No family rhymes for cedar. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
Cedar at the verse, breeders at the line that follows it.
All night the cedar turned into seater, vowel-first, consonants letting go.
Inside the line, cedar echoes pleiad on consonant alone.
Why cedar rhymes the way it does
The rhyme map for cedar starts at the vowel โ the broad /ษหr/, IPA /ษหr/ โ and ends where the line ends on a liquid that pulls the line forward. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 24 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 149, assonance 4,562, and consonance 760. The empty family column matters less than it looks. Family rhymes are a strict-classifier construct; the songwriter's ear accepts most assonance matches in their place. 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. Cedar 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 cedar. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open cedar in RhymeForge above.