Words that rhyme with Clause
Clause works as an unguarded everyday word on the lyric side and one-syllable the open /ษห/ on the sound side โ it ends in a hissed consonant at the close. Common words like this gain weight from the company they keep on the line. It serves as a common-tongue word in most lyrics. If you're searching for rhymes for clause, the shape of the pool is unusual: the perfect-rhyme pool is generous, family rhymes are simply absent, and the slant pool is enormous on the vowel side. Take the strict matches first; they have more range than the count suggests.
Open clause in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- cause
- pause
- daws
- draws
- flaws
- gauze
- haws
- jaws
- laws
- paws
- straws
- thaws
- cos
- cross
- loss
- moss
- sauce
- toss
- gaus
- gnaws
- saws
- coss
- dos
- doss
- gloss
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 clause. 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.
- draw
- jaw
- law
- raw
- shaw
- straw
- paused
- claw
- daw
- flaw
- haw
- maw
- paw
- saw
- thaw
- waugh
- aw
- caw
- chaw
- craw
- faw
- gaw
- gnaw
- haugh
- slaw
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- cost
- frost
- bald
- ball
- balls
- blog
- board
- bore
- born
- bot
- broad
- call
- called
- cloth
- cord
- core
- corn
- corps
- corpse
- course
- court
- crawl
- dawn
- dog
- dong
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 clause 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.
- breeze
- buzz
- cheese
- choose
- cruise
- eyes
- freeze
- jazz
- news
- noise
- praise
- prize
- quiz
- rise
- seize
- size
- squeeze
- use
- wise
- as
- ayes
- bays
- bees
- biz
- blaze
How songwriters use these rhymes
I keep on saying clause, and the night keeps saying cause back.
No family rhymes for clause. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
It started as clause, ended as draw, same vowel either way.
The vowel between clause and cost carries the rhyme โ the consonants step aside.
No ending rhymes for clause โ its final syllable carries the stress, so the columns above do the work.
The clause at the start of the line, the breeze tucked inside it, same consonant frame.
Why clause rhymes the way it does
In our engine, clause registers as a one-syllable word on the open /ษห/ (/ษห/) that spills into a fricative. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 52 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 50, assonance 6,427, and consonance 1158. 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 clause 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 clause. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open clause in RhymeForge above.