Words that rhyme with Decade
Decade is a two-syllable word built around a front-of-the-mouth /eษช/, and it shuts cleanly on a stopped consonant. It tells you when the song is happening. What the engine returns: there's plenty in the strict column, family rhymes come up empty, and the slant-vowel column carries the page on its own. Lyric-wise, the word reads as a when-word. The strict list is rich enough to anchor the whole song.
Open decade in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- abrade
- afraid
- allayed
- arcade
- arrayed
- betrayed
- brigade
- buffeted
- cascade
- charade
- conveyed
- crocheted
- crusade
- degrade
- delayed
- dismayed
- displayed
- dissuade
- evade
- forbade
- grenade
- invade
- mislaid
- obeyed
- outweighed
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 decade. 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.
- abrades
- arcades
- brigades
- brocades
- cascades
- charades
- crusades
- decades
- degrades
- evades
- grenades
- parades
- persuades
- pervades
- tirades
- upgrades
- allay
- array
- astray
- away
- ballet
- betray
- bouquet
- cafe
- callais
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- abates
- awaits
- conflates
- creates
- debates
- dictates
- elates
- equates
- estates
- misstates
- narrates
- negates
- relates
- restates
- sedates
- translates
- updates
- ablaze
- abstain
- abstained
- acclaim
- acclaimed
- acclaims
- acquaint
- aflame
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- abed
- abide
- abode
- abroad
- absurd
- accrued
- ahead
- allied
- allowed
- allude
- aloud
- amid
- annoyed
- applaud
- applied
- aside
- astride
- avoid
- avowed
- ballade
- behead
- belied
- beside
- bestowed
- bestrode
How songwriters use these rhymes
He left me the decade; I gave him the abrade back.
No family rhymes for decade. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
From decade to abrades, a consonant arrives and the rhyme reshapes.
The vowel between decade and abates carries the rhyme โ the consonants step aside.
Decade and abed share the closing shape, even when the vowels disagree.
Why decade rhymes the way it does
The phonology of decade is a two-syllable core: a long-a that lifts the line (/a/), then it ends with a clean stop. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 188 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 180, assonance 5,535, and consonance 704. 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. 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. Decade 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 decade. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open decade in RhymeForge above.