Words that rhyme with Condone
From a sound-design view, condone is a word the lyric earns weight from by context on the open /oส/, two-syllable, and it rings out through a nasal. Common words like this gain weight from the company they keep on the line. This one travels in song as a plain-speech anchor. Rhymes for condone have a particular footprint: strict rhymes are abundant, family rhymes give you a small but useful slant pool, and the assonance well runs into four figures. Spend the first verse in the perfect column before sampling the slants.
Open condone in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- alone
- atone
- bemoan
- cologne
- cyclone
- dethrone
- disown
- leone
- outshone
- pavone
- perone
- postpone
- trombone
- unknown
- garcon
- intone
- outgrown
- blown
- bone
- bowne
- clone
- cone
- crone
- drone
- flown
Family rhymes (18 shown)
Same vowel, with a single consonant swapped for one from the same articulatory family. Slant rhymes that pass the ear test.
- shalom
- chrome
- comb
- combe
- dome
- foam
- gloam
- gnome
- holm
- home
- loam
- nome
- ohm
- roam
- rome
- tome
- velodrome
- proteome
Additive & subtractive (25 shown)
Same core sound, with an extra consonant added (or one dropped) at the end.
- bemoaned
- bemoans
- condoned
- condones
- cyclones
- dethroned
- disowned
- leones
- postponed
- postpones
- quinones
- trombones
- unknowns
- aglow
- ago
- below
- bestow
- bordeaux
- chateau
- chateaux
- dunno
- escrow
- forego
- forgo
- gateau
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- abode
- afloat
- ahold
- aholds
- approach
- approached
- arkose
- arose
- awoke
- baroque
- behold
- bespoke
- bestowed
- bestows
- bestrode
- busload
- busloads
- cajole
- cajoled
- capote
- caroche
- commode
- compose
- composed
- connote
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- abstain
- achene
- adjoin
- adjourn
- affine
- again
- agin
- akin
- alane
- align
- aline
- amen
- amin
- arraign
- assign
- attain
- baleen
- baton
- began
- begin
- begun
- benign
- benzene
- berlin
- between
How songwriters use these rhymes
You said condone, I heard alone, neither of us was wrong.
The condone in the line, the shalom at the end of it โ same vowel, different door.
From condone to bemoaned, a consonant arrives and the rhyme reshapes.
All night the condone turned into abode, vowel-first, consonants letting go.
Condone and abstain share the closing shape, even when the vowels disagree.
Why condone rhymes the way it does
Condone is built around the round /oส/ (/o/); it's two-syllable and lets the nasal carry the tail. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 61 matches, family rhymes 18, additive and subtractive together 147, assonance 5,474, and consonance 901. That's a generous landscape on both axes. A song can stay in strict rhymes across a verse without repeating itself, then drop into family rhymes for the bridge. Writing-tip: don't end every line with the strict rhyme. Use the slant columns at the joints and the strict matches at the seams. Condone works hardest when the slant carries the verse and the strict match closes the chorus.
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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 condone. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open condone in RhymeForge above.