Words that rhyme with Crisis
Treated as a common-tongue word, crisis is also a two-syllable sound-shape on the clipped /ɪ/ — one that ends in a hissed consonant. The lyric earns it by placement, not by selection. Songwriters reach for it as a quotidian anchor. Perfect rhymes are thin on the ground, family rhymes contribute a handful of voice-pair near-perfects, and the vowel-only slant column is the deepest of the five. Slide from the strict column into the family column when the chorus needs a refresh.
Open crisis in RhymeForge →Perfect rhymes (6 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- ices
- prices
- slices
- spices
- vices
- devices
Family rhymes (6 shown)
Same vowel, with a single consonant swapped for one from the same articulatory family. Slant rhymes that pass the ear test.
- guises
- prizes
- rises
- sizes
- arises
- comprises
Additive & subtractive (25 shown)
Same core sound, with an extra consonant added (or one dropped) at the end.
- advice
- concise
- device
- entice
- excise
- misprice
- precise
- reprice
- suffice
- bice
- dice
- feis
- gneiss
- grice
- ice
- lice
- mice
- nice
- price
- rice
- slice
- spice
- splice
- thrice
- tice
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- biased
- bison
- driest
- dryness
- eisel
- eyeless
- highest
- highness
- hyson
- ibis
- iris
- minus
- primus
- quiets
- righteous
- riots
- science
- shyness
- sinus
- situs
- slyness
- stylus
- tieless
- typhus
- virus
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- basis
- glacis
- lysis
- rhesus
- thesis
- versus
- cassis
- process
- cirrhosis
- colossus
- fibrosis
- hypnosis
- meiosis
- narcissus
- necrosis
- nephrosis
- neurosis
- proboscis
- prognosis
- psychosis
- sclerosis
- thrombosis
- gaseous
- oasis
- osmosis
How songwriters use these rhymes
She kept her crisis close, and her ices closer.
Crisis and guises: same vowel, kissing-cousin consonant.
She gave the crisis away, then watched it come back as advice.
Track the vowel from crisis to biased and you have the chorus.
The crisis at the start of the line, the basis tucked inside it, same consonant frame.
Why crisis rhymes the way it does
Pull crisis apart phonetically and you get a two-syllable word with the clipped /ɪ/ (/ɪ/) as the rhyme-bearing vowel; the close tails through a fricative. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 6 matches, family rhymes 6, additive and subtractive together 121, assonance 3,054, and consonance 58. 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. Crisis 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.
This page is a static snapshot of the rhymes for crisis. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open crisis in RhymeForge above.