Words that rhyme with Chance
Sound and sense both matter for chance. The sound: one-syllable, vowel on the front-and-flat /æ/, ending that trails off into a fricative. The sense: an idea-word. Pair it with something tactile and the line lifts. Sketch the rhyme pool and you get perfect rhymes are thin on the ground, family rhymes give you a few singable slant options, and the slant pool is enormous on the vowel side. Sketch the lyric role and you get a word that wants concrete rhymes to ground it. Let the assonance column shape the verse; the strict matches can punctuate it.
Open chance in RhymeForge →Perfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- dance
- glance
- hance
- lance
- nance
- prance
- rance
- stance
- trance
- bans
- cans
- clans
- crans
- fans
- gans
- krans
- kranz
- mans
- pans
- plans
- sans
- scans
- spans
- tans
- trans
Family rhymes (25 shown)
Same vowel, with a single consonant swapped for one from the same articulatory family. Slant rhymes that pass the ear test.
- bangs
- cams
- clams
- crams
- damns
- dams
- drams
- fangs
- gangs
- grahams
- grams
- hams
- hangs
- jams
- lambs
- pangs
- rams
- sams
- scams
- scrams
- slams
- tangs
- trams
- yams
- exams
Additive & subtractive (25 shown)
Same core sound, with an extra consonant added (or one dropped) at the end.
- chanced
- danced
- glanced
- an
- ann
- ban
- bran
- can
- cann
- clan
- dan
- duan
- fan
- flan
- gan
- gran
- jann
- man
- nan
- pan
- plan
- ran
- san
- scan
- shan
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- ankh
- ant
- apps
- aunt
- ax
- axe
- backs
- band
- banned
- baths
- bats
- batts
- blacks
- blanch
- bland
- branch
- brand
- brant
- brats
- cads
- canned
- cant
- caps
- cats
- chant
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- bounce
- bunce
- chaunce
- dense
- fence
- flounce
- hence
- mince
- nonce
- once
- ounce
- pence
- pounce
- prince
- quince
- rinse
- sconce
- sense
- since
- spence
- tense
- thence
- trounce
- whence
- wince
How songwriters use these rhymes
All the words I learned for chance came back as dance.
Chance and bangs: same vowel, kissing-cousin consonant.
It started as chance, ended as chanced, same vowel either way.
All night the chance turned into ankh, vowel-first, consonants letting go.
Inside the line, chance echoes bounce on consonant alone.
Why chance rhymes the way it does
Pull chance apart phonetically and you get a one-syllable word with the front-and-flat /æ/ (/æ/) as the rhyme-bearing vowel; the close ends in a hissed consonant. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 37 matches, family rhymes 27, additive and subtractive together 88, assonance 6,552, and consonance 198. The mix gives you options across the board. Strict rhymes for the structural beats, family or assonance for the interior lines. The songwriter's move is to pick a small set of strict rhymes for the chorus and open up to family and assonance through the verses. Chance rewards slant rhyming because the strict pool, when over-used, calls attention to itself.
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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 chance. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open chance in RhymeForge above.