Words that rhyme with Demise
Treated as a household-word, demise is also a two-syllable sound-shape on the bright /aษช/ โ one that lets the line dissolve into a fricative. Common words like this gain weight from the company they keep on the line. The headline counts: perfect rhymes are common for this one, the family-rhyme bucket is bare, and the assonance well runs into four figures. The lyric headline: it works as a word the lyric earns weight from by context. Build the chorus from the strict list; the slants are saved for the bridge.
Open demise in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- advise
- applies
- apprise
- arise
- baptize
- belies
- chastise
- complies
- comprise
- decries
- defies
- denies
- despise
- devise
- disguise
- emprise
- relies
- replies
- reprise
- revise
- supplies
- surprise
- unwise
- advice
- concise
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 demise. 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.
- advised
- apprised
- baptized
- chastised
- comprised
- despised
- devised
- disguised
- revised
- surmised
- surprised
- apply
- awry
- belie
- bonsai
- comply
- decry
- defy
- deny
- descry
- hereby
- lanai
- rely
- reply
- retry
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- enticed
- mispriced
- repriced
- sufficed
- abide
- abides
- admire
- admires
- affine
- affined
- affines
- afire
- alight
- align
- aligned
- aligns
- alike
- aline
- alines
- alive
- allied
- applied
- argyll
- arrive
- arrived
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- ablaze
- abuzz
- accrues
- accuse
- agrees
- allays
- allows
- amaze
- amuse
- appease
- applause
- appraise
- arose
- arouse
- arrays
- ballets
- because
- bemuse
- bestows
- betrays
- bouquets
- canoes
- carouse
- chalets
- chartreuse
How songwriters use these rhymes
Every time I write demise, the next line wants advise.
No family rhymes for demise. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
Demise alone, advised in the chorus โ the song builds the consonant in.
Demise at the line's beginning, enticed at its end, same vowel humming through both.
The demise at the start of the line, the ablaze tucked inside it, same consonant frame.
Why demise rhymes the way it does
The rhyme map for demise starts at the vowel โ the gliding /aษช/, IPA /i/ โ and ends where the line softens into a fricative tail. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 98 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 108, assonance 2,935, and consonance 730. 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. Writing-tip: don't end every line with the strict rhyme. Use the slant columns at the joints and the strict matches at the seams. Demise works hardest when the slant carries the verse and the strict match closes the chorus.
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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 demise. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open demise in RhymeForge above.