Words that rhyme with Curse
The shape of curse: one-syllable, vowel coloured by the r-coloured schwa, ending that ends in a hissed consonant. Its everydayness lets the song surprise around it. Strict rhymes arrive in number here, no family-rhyme matches turn up, while the slant pool, matched on vowel alone, is huge. Rhymes for curse, broken down across five types, look like this: the deeper map matters more than the headline count. The strict list gives you a chorus' worth of options before you ever need a slant.
Open curse in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- nurse
- purse
- verse
- worse
- burse
- hearse
- perce
- perse
- terse
- vers
- blurs
- ers
- firs
- furs
- slurs
- spurs
- stirs
- purrs
- adverse
- diverse
- reverse
- averse
- disperse
- immerse
- inverse
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 curse. 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.
- burst
- cursed
- worst
- bursts
- first
- hurst
- versed
- fur
- sir
- stir
- durst
- firsts
- nursed
- pursed
- thirst
- thirsts
- wurst
- blur
- burr
- cur
- fir
- her
- slur
- spur
- sur
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- bird
- birth
- burke
- burn
- burned
- burns
- burnt
- clerk
- curb
- curve
- curved
- dirt
- earn
- earned
- earth
- firm
- girl
- herb
- herd
- hurt
- jerk
- learn
- merge
- nerve
- pearl
Ending rhymes (0 shown)
A shared unstressed final syllable โ the window/shadow slant. Weaker than a perfect rhyme, completely idiomatic in song.
No ending rhymes for curse โ its final syllable carries the stress, so the columns above do the work.
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- ace
- ass
- base
- bass
- bless
- bliss
- boss
- brass
- case
- chase
- chess
- choice
- class
- cos
- cross
- dice
- dose
- dress
- face
- gas
- glass
- goose
- grace
- grass
- gross
How songwriters use these rhymes
Curse in the first verse, nurse in the second, and a song between them.
No family rhymes for curse. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
She gave the curse away, then watched it come back as burst.
What we called curse, the lyric heard as bird.
No ending rhymes for curse โ its final syllable carries the stress, so the columns above do the work.
Curse and ace: the vowels are different but the consonants are kin.
Why curse rhymes the way it does
In our engine, curse registers as a one-syllable word on the /ษหr/ vowel (/ษหr/) that ends in a hissed consonant. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 61 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 95, assonance 2,952, and consonance 637. 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 guidance: read the song aloud and listen for where a slant would tighten the line. Strict rhymes are the structural skeleton; the slant columns are where the personality of the lyric lives. With curse, the slant work is doing more weight-bearing than it looks.
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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 curse. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open curse in RhymeForge above.