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: perfect rhymes are common for this one, 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. There's enough in the strict column to write a verse without leaving it.
Open cigar in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- bizarre
- guitar
- afar
- bazaar
- ajar
- bazar
- boyar
- dinar
- navar
- sitar
- soutar
- subpar
- bar
- car
- far
- jar
- mar
- scar
- star
- are
- carr
- char
- czar
- parr
- spar
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
- apart
- regard
- regards
- alarmed
- alarms
- bazaars
- cigars
- discharged
- embark
- embarked
- embarks
- forearm
- forearms
- guitars
- recharge
- remark
- remarked
- remarks
- restart
- retards
- belgard
- bombard
- canard
- demarche
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- adopt
- evolve
- forgot
- garage
- massage
- milan
- resolve
- resolved
- respond
- response
- salon
- unlock
- vermont
- abbas
- adopts
- atop
- banal
- barrage
- baton
- batons
- beyond
- cabal
- collage
- dissolve
- dissolved
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 cigar 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.
- admire
- affair
- assure
- aware
- career
- compare
- declare
- despair
- endure
- ensure
- frontier
- inspire
- mature
- obscure
- premier
- premiere
- prepare
- repair
- secure
- severe
- sincere
- unclear
- unfair
- adhere
- allure
How songwriters use these rhymes
She kept her cigar close, and her bizarre 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 adopt and you have the chorus.
No ending rhymes for cigar โ its final syllable carries the stress, so the columns above do the work.
Cigar and admire 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 75 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 437, assonance 6,210, and consonance 703. 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. 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.
More songwriting tools
Stuck on the chord side of the song? The chord progression builder on the Undercover Zest home page maps every common progression in every key, with borrowed chords and substitutions called out. Need a fresh angle on a stuck lyric? CollisionLab generates unexpected word pairings to break a writer's block. All free, no signup.
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.