Words that rhyme with Close
Close: one-syllable, a plain-speech anchor, vowel sitting on the open /oส/, ending that lets the line dissolve into a fricative. Its everydayness lets the song surprise around it. Its job in a lyric is an unguarded everyday word, holding down whatever line it lands in. If you typed what rhymes with close to land here, the breakdown is this: there's a deep bench of perfect rhymes here, family rhymes come up empty, and the slant pool, matched on vowel alone, is huge. Start strict, scan family, and only reach for assonance when the line wants slant.
Open close in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- blows
- bowes
- brose
- chose
- cose
- crows
- doze
- flows
- foes
- froze
- glows
- goes
- grows
- hoes
- hose
- joes
- knows
- lowes
- lows
- moes
- mose
- noes
- nose
- ohs
- ose
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 close. 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.
- closed
- dozed
- hosed
- nosed
- posed
- beau
- beaux
- blow
- bo
- bro
- clow
- crow
- doe
- doh
- dough
- eau
- eaux
- floe
- flow
- foe
- fro
- gau
- glow
- go
- goe
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- boast
- boasts
- coast
- coasts
- coste
- ghost
- ghosts
- grossed
- host
- hosts
- most
- post
- posts
- roast
- roasts
- toast
- toasts
- bloat
- bloats
- bloke
- blokes
- blowed
- blown
- boak
- boat
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- ahs
- ais
- as
- ayes
- baas
- baize
- bayes
- bays
- bees
- bes
- bise
- biz
- blaise
- blaize
- blase
- blaze
- blurs
- boys
- braise
- brees
- breese
- breeze
- buys
- buzz
- cees
How songwriters use these rhymes
The line ends on close; the next one starts on blows.
No family rhymes for close. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
From close to closed, a consonant arrives and the rhyme reshapes.
Close at the line's beginning, boast at its end, same vowel humming through both.
Close and ahs share the closing shape, even when the vowels disagree.
Why close rhymes the way it does
The phonology of close is a one-syllable core: the round /oส/ (/o/), then it tails through a fricative. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 84 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 125, assonance 5,536, and consonance 558. 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. Practical guidance: read the song aloud and listen for where a slant would tighten the line. Strict rhymes are the structural skeleton; the slant columns are where the personality of the lyric lives. With close, the slant work is doing more weight-bearing than it looks.
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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 close. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open close in RhymeForge above.