Words that rhyme with Cite
For lyric work, cite behaves as a household-word. Sound-wise: one-syllable, vowel on the bright /aɪ/, finally it lands on a stopped consonant. The lyric earns it by placement, not by selection. Run rhymes for cite through any half-decent engine and you get this shape: the perfect-rhyme column has enough to live in, nothing lands in the family-rhyme column, while the slant-vowel column carries the page on its own. Its lyric role is a plain-speech anchor. Begin with the perfect list — it carries plenty before the slant columns are needed.
Open cite in RhymeForge →Perfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- bight
- bite
- blight
- bright
- byte
- fight
- flight
- fright
- height
- hight
- kight
- kite
- knight
- kyte
- light
- lite
- might
- mite
- night
- nite
- plight
- quite
- right
- rite
- sleight
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 cite. 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.
- bites
- bytes
- cites
- fights
- flights
- heights
- kites
- knights
- lights
- lites
- mites
- nights
- rights
- rites
- sights
- sites
- slights
- tights
- trites
- whites
- wrights
- writes
- ai
- aye
- bi
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- side
- sighed
- syed
- brides
- chides
- fides
- glides
- guides
- hides
- prides
- rides
- sides
- slides
- strides
- tides
- ais
- aisle
- aisles
- ayes
- bice
- bike
- biked
- bikes
- bile
- biles
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- at
- ate
- aught
- baht
- bait
- bat
- bate
- batt
- beat
- beet
- bet
- bit
- blatt
- bloat
- blot
- blurt
- boat
- boot
- bot
- bott
- bought
- bout
- brat
- brit
- britt
How songwriters use these rhymes
She kept her cite close, and her bight closer.
No family rhymes for cite. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
Cite at the verse, bites at the line that follows it.
Track the vowel from cite to side and you have the chorus.
The cite at the start of the line, the at tucked inside it, same consonant frame.
Why cite rhymes the way it does
Cite sits on the bright /aɪ/, transcribed /i/ in our engine, and shuts cleanly on a stopped consonant. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 139 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 128, assonance 2,926, and consonance 995. 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. Cite 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 cite. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open cite in RhymeForge above.