Words that rhyme with Chase
Chase works as a kinetic anchor on the lyric side and one-syllable a front-of-the-mouth /eษช/ on the sound side โ it ends in a hissed consonant at the close. The verb-energy of it pushes the song. When a songwriter asks what rhymes with chase, the pool tells a specific story: the picked top sets below tell most of the story: perfect rhymes turn up in abundance, nothing lands in the family-rhyme column, and the slant-vowel column carries the page on its own. Lyrically, the word arrives as a wanting word. The strict list gives you a chorus' worth of options before you ever need a slant.
Open chase in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- ace
- base
- case
- face
- grace
- lace
- pace
- place
- race
- space
- trace
- brace
- mace
- rais
- praise
- dace
- glace
- vase
- bays
- blaze
- clays
- crays
- craze
- dais
- days
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 chase. 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.
- paste
- placed
- taste
- waist
- waste
- haste
- laced
- paced
- pastes
- tastes
- waists
- wastes
- bay
- clay
- day
- gay
- grey
- hay
- hey
- kay
- lay
- play
- pray
- prey
- ray
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- ache
- age
- aid
- aids
- aim
- ate
- babe
- bail
- bait
- bake
- baked
- blade
- blame
- brain
- brake
- brave
- break
- cage
- cake
- cane
- cape
- cave
- chain
- change
- claim
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 chase 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.
- ass
- bass
- bless
- bliss
- boss
- brass
- bus
- chess
- choice
- class
- cos
- cross
- curse
- dice
- dose
- dress
- gas
- glass
- goose
- grass
- gross
- guess
- house
- ice
- juice
How songwriters use these rhymes
She kept her chase close, and her ace closer.
No family rhymes for chase. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
Chase at the verse, paste at the line that follows it.
What we called chase, the lyric heard as ache.
No ending rhymes for chase โ its final syllable carries the stress, so the columns above do the work.
Chase and ass: the vowels are different but the consonants are kin.
Why chase rhymes the way it does
The phonology of chase is a one-syllable core: the gliding /eษช/ (/a/), then it lets the line dissolve into a fricative. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 242 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 313, assonance 7,120, and consonance 575. 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 practice: start at the top of the perfect column, scan family next, and reach for the assonance pool when the strict matches feel worn. A lyric that uses only strict rhymes for chase tends to read as dated; the contemporary ear forgives โ and often prefers โ the slant.
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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 chase. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open chase in RhymeForge above.