Words that rhyme with Condemn
Condemn: two-syllable, a word the lyric earns weight from by context, vowel sitting on the short /ษ/, ending that lets the nasal carry the tail. It's an unremarkable word until the verse asks it to do something. Type rhymes for condemn into any dictionary and the answer is roughly the same: the picked top sets below tell most of the story: only a handful of strict perfect rhymes survive, family-rhyme matches contribute a small near-perfect column, and the assonance well is bottomless. Lyrically, the word arrives as a plain-speech anchor. Family rhymes are the gentlest step away from strict; use them when the line wants softening.
Open condemn in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (11 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- contemn
- clem
- em
- femme
- gem
- hem
- phlegm
- prem
- rem
- stem
- them
Family rhymes (25 shown)
Same vowel, with a single consonant swapped for one from the same articulatory family. Slant rhymes that pass the ear test.
- again
- amen
- cayenne
- doyenne
- been
- ben
- benne
- bren
- den
- en
- eng
- fen
- gen
- glen
- gren
- hen
- ken
- leng
- men
- meng
- pen
- ren
- renne
- sen
- sten
Additive & subtractive (25 shown)
Same core sound, with an extra consonant added (or one dropped) at the end.
- attempt
- attempts
- condemned
- condemns
- contempt
- exempt
- exempts
- unkempt
- dreamt
- empt
- empts
- fremd
- gems
- hemmed
- hemp
- hems
- kemp
- memes
- stemmed
- stems
- temp
- temps
- tempt
- tempts
- eh
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- accent
- against
- amend
- amends
- append
- ascend
- ascends
- ascent
- assent
- attend
- attends
- augment
- avenge
- avenged
- befriend
- befriends
- cement
- commence
- commenced
- commend
- commends
- condense
- condensed
- consent
- consents
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- abloom
- abram
- acclaim
- affirm
- aflame
- agleam
- aplomb
- ashame
- assume
- ballgame
- becalm
- became
- become
- confirm
- consume
- costume
- declaim
- defame
- disclaim
- embalm
- entomb
- esteem
- exam
- exclaim
- exhume
How songwriters use these rhymes
I keep on saying condemn, and the night keeps saying contemn back.
Condemn and again: same vowel, kissing-cousin consonant.
She gave the condemn away, then watched it come back as attempt.
All night the condemn turned into accent, vowel-first, consonants letting go.
Condemn and abloom share the closing shape, even when the vowels disagree.
Why condemn rhymes the way it does
The rhyme map for condemn starts at the vowel โ the mid /ษ/, IPA /ษ/ โ and ends where the line lets the nasal carry the tail. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 11 matches, family rhymes 40, additive and subtractive together 29, assonance 10,848, and consonance 475. The mix gives you options across the board. Strict rhymes for the structural beats, family or assonance for the interior lines. What matters when you're writing: the ear forgives slants in service of meaning. If the strict rhyme is the predictable word, the assonance match will usually hit harder. Condemn is a word where the slant choice almost always reads as more thoughtful than the obvious end-rhyme.
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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.
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