Words that rhyme with Decree
Singers reaching for decree find a word that knows where it's going on the surface and a two-syllable core on a tight high-vowel /iห/ underneath โ one that ends on an open vowel. It tells the listener the verse already knows the ending. The headline counts: there's plenty in the strict column, family-rhyme territory comes up dry, and the assonance well is bottomless. The lyric headline: it works as an ordained-anchor. Use the strict rhymes for the structural beats and let slant rhymes do the interior work.
Open decree in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- agree
- albee
- allee
- banshee
- chablis
- curie
- debris
- degree
- esprit
- foresee
- lessee
- louie
- marquee
- rupee
- indri
- marquis
- payee
- trustee
- yippee
- be
- bee
- bree
- brie
- de
- dee
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 decree. 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.
- accede
- accedes
- achene
- achenes
- achieve
- achieved
- achieves
- afield
- aggrieve
- aggrieved
- agin
- agleam
- agreed
- agrees
- amin
- anneal
- antique
- antiques
- apiece
- appeal
- appealed
- appeals
- appease
- appeased
- aris
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- allay
- array
- astray
- away
- ballet
- betray
- bouquet
- cafe
- callais
- cliche
- convey
- crochet
- croquet
- decay
- defray
- delay
- dismay
- display
- essay
- filet
- fillet
- hooray
- hurray
- manet
- moray
Consonance (0 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
No consonance matches for decree in our dictionary โ its closing consonant is rare in English.
How songwriters use these rhymes
The line ends on decree; the next one starts on agree.
No family rhymes for decree. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
She gave the decree away, then watched it come back as accede.
What we called decree, the lyric heard as allay.
No consonance matches for decree โ the closing consonant is rare in our dictionary.
Why decree rhymes the way it does
Decree is two-syllable, its rhyme-relevant vowel sitting on the singing /iห/, then it opens out at the end. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 140 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 1041, assonance 2,306, and consonance 0. 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. 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. Decree 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.
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