Words that rhyme with Declare
Map declare onto a phonological grid and you get: two-syllable, the open /ษหr/, ending that spills out through a liquid consonant. Lyrically, it reads as a stop-by-stop-grocery-shelf word. Common words like this gain weight from the company they keep on the line. What the engine returns: strict rhymes are abundant, no family-rhyme matches turn up, and the assonance well is bottomless. Lyric-wise, the word reads as a quotidian anchor. Build the chorus from the strict list; the slants are saved for the bridge.
Open declare in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- affair
- aware
- beware
- compare
- despair
- ensnare
- forswear
- prepare
- repair
- unfair
- impair
- air
- ayre
- bare
- bear
- blare
- care
- chair
- cher
- dare
- ere
- err
- eyre
- fair
- fare
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 declare. 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.
- affairs
- compared
- compares
- declared
- declares
- despaired
- despairs
- ensnared
- ensnares
- moderne
- prepared
- prepares
- relearn
- repaired
- repairs
- upstairs
- impaired
- impairs
- aired
- airs
- ayres
- bared
- bares
- bears
- blared
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- abed
- abele
- abeles
- abet
- abreast
- accent
- accept
- accepts
- addressed
- adept
- affect
- affects
- afresh
- again
- against
- aggress
- ahead
- allege
- alleged
- amen
- amend
- amends
- append
- arrest
- arrests
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- abhor
- admire
- adore
- afar
- afire
- ajar
- allure
- ashore
- aspire
- assure
- bazaar
- bazar
- before
- bizarre
- bonjour
- boyar
- brochure
- cigar
- couture
- decor
- demure
- deplore
- detour
- dinar
- endear
How songwriters use these rhymes
There's the word for declare, and the older word for affair, and the song between them.
No family rhymes for declare. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
Declare at the verse, affairs at the line that follows it.
Track the vowel from declare to abed and you have the chorus.
The declare at the start of the line, the abhor tucked inside it, same consonant frame.
Why declare rhymes the way it does
Declare sits on the open /ษหr/, transcribed /ษหr/ in our engine, and ends on a liquid that pulls the line forward. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 72 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 94, assonance 8,212, and consonance 476. 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: skim the strict column first and pick the two or three matches you can sing without thinking. Then move to assonance for the in-between lines. Declare reads as more memorable when the strict matches are reserved for the line endings that matter most.
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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 declare. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open declare in RhymeForge above.