Words that rhyme with December
From a sound-design view, december is an unguarded everyday word on the r-coloured schwa, three-syllable, and it ends on a liquid that pulls the line forward. It's an unremarkable word until the verse asks it to do something. Search for what rhymes with december and the engine returns a recognisable shape: the picked top sets below tell most of the story: the perfect column gives you just enough to start, no near-perfect family slants exist for this one, and the slant-vowel column carries the page on its own. Lyrically, the word arrives as a plain-speech anchor. The slant pool is huge enough that you'll never need to repeat a rhyme.
Open december in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (9 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- dismember
- nonmember
- november
- remember
- ember
- member
- misremember
- distemper
- temper
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 december. 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.
- dismembered
- nonmembers
- remembered
- remembers
- embers
- membered
- members
- misremembered
- condemn
- contemn
- pirouette
- clem
- em
- femme
- gem
- hem
- phlegm
- prem
- rem
- stem
- them
- celeb
- deb
- ebb
- eh
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- assembler
- assemblers
- kemper
- temblor
- temblors
- demerse
- dempster
- tempered
- tempers
- templar
- templars
- tremors
- adventure
- avenger
- condenser
- contender
- debenture
- defender
- dispenser
- dissenter
- engender
- indenture
- inventor
- offender
- pretender
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- encumber
- outnumber
- dicamba
- amber
- camber
- chamber
- clamber
- cumber
- lumber
- number
- slumber
- somber
- ambery
- cumbia
- gambia
- homebuyer
- zambia
- gamba
- mamba
- samba
- bambi
- combo
- comby
- crumby
- dumbo
How songwriters use these rhymes
There's the word for december, and the older word for dismember, and the song between them.
No family rhymes for december. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
She gave the december away, then watched it come back as dismembered.
What we called december, the lyric heard as assembler.
The december at the start of the line, the encumber tucked inside it, same consonant frame.
Why december rhymes the way it does
December is built around the /ษหr/ that mid-Atlantic ears class as one vowel (/ษหr/); it's three-syllable and ends on a liquid that pulls the line forward. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 9 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 29, assonance 11,482, and consonance 36. 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 the room with a guitar: write toward the strict rhyme first, then go back through and replace the obvious ones with the assonance matches that earned their place. December is a word that benefits from the second pass.
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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 december. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open december in RhymeForge above.