Words that rhyme with Cursed
Most songwriters treat cursed as a quotidian anchor, but the phonology underneath matters: two-syllable, vowel on the short /ษ/, ending that closes on a hard stop. Plain-speech words like this earn weight through context. Sketch the rhyme pool and you get perfect matches come in a small handful, no near-perfect family slants exist for this one, and the assonance column dwarfs the others. Sketch the lyric role and you get a common-tongue word. The interior life of any lyric on this word is going to be the assonance list.
Open cursed in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (23 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- burst
- durst
- first
- hurst
- nursed
- pursed
- thirst
- versed
- worst
- wurst
- coerced
- conversed
- disbursed
- dispersed
- emersed
- immersed
- rehearsed
- reversed
- submersed
- interspersed
- reimbursed
- headfirst
- unrehearsed
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 cursed. 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.
- bursts
- firsts
- thirsts
- burse
- curse
- hearse
- nurse
- perce
- perse
- purse
- terse
- vers
- verse
- worse
- birr
- blur
- blurt
- bur
- burr
- cert
- chert
- cur
- curt
- dirt
- durr
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- burnt
- irked
- jerked
- learnt
- lurched
- lurked
- perched
- perked
- searched
- shirked
- surfed
- worked
- burned
- churned
- curbed
- curled
- curved
- earned
- firmed
- hurled
- learned
- merged
- purged
- scourged
- served
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
- boast
- boost
- bossed
- braced
- breast
- cast
- caste
- ceased
- chased
- chaste
- chest
- cist
- classed
- coast
- cost
- coste
How songwriters use these rhymes
The line ends on cursed; the next one starts on burst.
No family rhymes for cursed. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
Cursed alone, bursts in the chorus โ the song builds the consonant in.
Cursed at the line's beginning, burnt at its end, same vowel humming through both.
Cursed and aced share the closing shape, even when the vowels disagree.
Why cursed rhymes the way it does
The phonology of cursed is a two-syllable core: the mid /ษ/ (/ษ/), then it lands on a closed syllable. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 23 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 115, assonance 4,417, and consonance 475. The empty family column matters less than it looks. Family rhymes are a strict-classifier construct; the songwriter's ear accepts most assonance matches in their place. In practice: start at the top of the perfect column, scan family next, and reach for the assonance pool when the strict matches feel worn. A lyric that uses only strict rhymes for cursed tends to read as dated; the contemporary ear forgives โ and often prefers โ the slant.
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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 cursed. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open cursed in RhymeForge above.