Words that rhyme with Communicate
There's a particular shape to communicate: four-syllable, built on the gliding /eษช/, ending that shuts cleanly on a stopped consonant. It's a word everyone uses โ which is what makes it powerful in a lyric. Two readings: as data โ you won't run short of perfect rhymes, family-rhyme territory comes up dry, the assonance well is bottomless; as lyric โ a workaday word. Build the chorus from the strict list; the slants are saved for the bridge.
Open communicate in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- appreciate
- evaluate
- overweight
- demodulate
- interrelate
- recriminate
- remunerate
- ate
- bait
- date
- fate
- freight
- gate
- great
- hate
- late
- mate
- plate
- rate
- slate
- state
- straight
- wait
- weight
- debate
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 communicate. 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.
- demodulates
- eighth
- gates
- states
- accelerates
- accumulates
- anticipates
- appreciates
- appropriates
- communicates
- cooperates
- deliberates
- elaborates
- eliminates
- evaluates
- facilitates
- manipulates
- negotiates
- participates
- anime
- underway
- annotates
- conjugates
- desecrates
- overrates
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- decade
- aids
- cade
- blockade
- decayed
- okayed
- cabarets
- entertain
- entertained
- entertains
- inhumane
- communiques
- legerdemain
- urokinase
- palisades
- promenades
- ace
- ache
- age
- aim
- babe
- bail
- bake
- baked
- base
Ending rhymes (25 shown)
A shared unstressed final syllable โ the window/shadow slant. Weaker than a perfect rhyme, completely idiomatic in song.
- adjudicate
- locate
- educate
- indicate
- lubricate
- excommunicate
- allocate
- dedicate
- replicate
- authenticate
- domesticate
- equivocate
- eradicate
- intoxicate
- misallocate
- pontificate
- prefabricate
- prevaricate
- prognosticate
- reallocate
- reciprocate
- rededicate
- reeducate
- sophisticate
- abdicate
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- anxiety
- society
- variety
- battery
- committee
- computer
- creator
- lottery
- annuity
- cincinnati
- entirety
- overnighter
- sobriety
- almighty
- batterer
- buttery
- caterer
- cigarette
- clarinet
- commuter
- confetti
- converter
- coyote
- curator
- dictator
How songwriters use these rhymes
She kept her communicate close, and her appreciate closer.
No family rhymes for communicate. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
From communicate to demodulates, a consonant arrives and the rhyme reshapes.
Track the vowel from communicate to decade and you have the chorus.
Let communicate fade into adjudicate; the final syllable does the rhyming for you.
Inside the line, communicate echoes anxiety on consonant alone.
Why communicate rhymes the way it does
To understand why communicate rhymes the way it does, start with the vowel โ a long-a that lifts the line, written /a/ โ and the ending, which snaps shut on a stop. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 590 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 557, assonance 6,165, and consonance 1364. 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: skim the strict column first and pick the two or three matches you can sing without thinking. Then move to assonance for the in-between lines. Communicate reads as more memorable when the strict matches are reserved for the line endings that matter most.
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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 communicate. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open communicate in RhymeForge above.