Words that rhyme with Cost
Cost is a stop-by-stop-grocery-shelf word: one-syllable, vowel sitting on the open /ษ/, ending that spills into a fricative. The lyric earns it by placement, not by selection. If you came here looking for what rhymes with cost, here's the shape of it: strict matches show up in low numbers, family rhymes round out the strict column, while the assonance column dwarfs the others. Its lyric role is a common-tongue word. The slant column is doing the heavy lifting; let it.
Open cost in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (8 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- crossed
- frost
- glossed
- lost
- tossed
- defrost
- embossed
- exhaust
Family rhymes (1 shown)
Same vowel, with a single consonant swapped for one from the same articulatory family. Slant rhymes that pass the ear test.
- paused
Only 1 match for cost in this type โ the slant columns below pick up the slack.
Additive & subtractive (25 shown)
Same core sound, with an extra consonant added (or one dropped) at the end.
- frosts
- cos
- coss
- cross
- dos
- doss
- dross
- gloss
- goss
- joss
- koss
- loss
- mos
- moss
- poss
- pross
- sauce
- schloss
- soss
- toss
- aught
- aw
- bot
- brought
- caw
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- balked
- boart
- bort
- chalked
- conte
- coughed
- court
- croft
- dault
- daunt
- dort
- fault
- flaunt
- fort
- gault
- gaunt
- halt
- haunt
- hawked
- jaunt
- loft
- malt
- mort
- mosk
- oft
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- aced
- based
- bast
- baste
- beast
- best
- blast
- blessed
- blest
- boost
- braced
- breast
- brust
- burst
- bused
- bussed
- bust
- cast
- caste
- ceased
- chased
- chaste
- chest
- cist
- classed
How songwriters use these rhymes
Cost in the first verse, crossed in the second, and a song between them.
Between cost and paused the family rhyme does its quiet work.
She gave the cost away, then watched it come back as frosts.
All night the cost turned into balked, vowel-first, consonants letting go.
Cost and aced share the closing shape, even when the vowels disagree.
Why cost rhymes the way it does
Cost sits on the round /ษ/, transcribed /ษ/ in our engine, and ends in a hissed consonant. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 8 matches, family rhymes 1, additive and subtractive together 83, assonance 9,376, and consonance 494. The mix gives you options across the board. Strict rhymes for the structural beats, family or assonance for the interior lines. 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. Cost 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 cost. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open cost in RhymeForge above.