Words that rhyme with Cigar
Treated as a workaday word, cigar is also a two-syllable sound-shape on the open /ษหr/ โ one that spills out through a liquid consonant. The lyric earns it by placement, not by selection. From the rhyme-data side: the perfect column gives you just enough to start, no family-rhyme matches turn up, and the assonance options multiply into the thousands. From the lyric side, it works as a stop-by-stop-grocery-shelf word. Reach for the assonance list whenever the strict pool starts repeating itself.
Open cigar in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- afar
- ajar
- bazaar
- bazar
- bizarre
- boyar
- dinar
- guitar
- navar
- sitar
- soutar
- subpar
- disbar
- tatar
- ar
- are
- bar
- car
- carr
- char
- czar
- far
- haar
- jar
- lar
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 cigar. 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.
- alarm
- alarmed
- alarms
- apart
- bazaars
- belgard
- bombard
- canard
- cigars
- demarche
- demark
- depart
- departs
- disarm
- disarmed
- disbarred
- discard
- discards
- discharge
- discharged
- embark
- embarked
- embarks
- ensnarl
- ensnarled
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- abbas
- abscond
- absconds
- absolve
- absolved
- absolves
- adopt
- adopts
- agog
- allot
- allots
- aplomb
- atop
- avant
- awash
- ballade
- banal
- bangkok
- barrage
- barraged
- baton
- batons
- becalm
- becalmed
- beyond
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- adhere
- admire
- affair
- afire
- allure
- amir
- appear
- aspire
- assure
- austere
- aware
- beware
- bonjour
- brochure
- career
- cashier
- cohere
- compare
- couture
- declare
- demure
- despair
- detour
- emir
- endear
How songwriters use these rhymes
She kept her cigar close, and her afar closer.
No family rhymes for cigar. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
Cigar at the verse, alarm at the line that follows it.
Track the vowel from cigar to abbas and you have the chorus.
Cigar and adhere share the closing shape, even when the vowels disagree.
Why cigar rhymes the way it does
Cigar is built around the /ษหr/ vowel (/ษหr/); it's two-syllable and flows into the next line via a liquid. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 39 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 296, assonance 6,948, and consonance 500. 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. 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. Cigar 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 cigar. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open cigar in RhymeForge above.