Words that rhyme with Demolition
Demolition works as a word the songwriter reaches for when the line needs scaffolding on the lyric side and four-syllable the mid /ษ/ on the sound side โ it ends on a humming nasal at the close. Pair it with something tactile and the line lifts. Sketch the rhyme pool and you get perfect rhymes are common for this one, nothing lands in the family-rhyme column, and the assonance pool is the one that won't run out. Sketch the lyric role and you get a word that lives in the head before the senses. The perfect-rhyme list below is generous; lean on it before sliding into slant.
Open demolition in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- acquisition
- admonition
- ammunition
- apparition
- competition
- composition
- definition
- deposition
- dietician
- dietitian
- disposition
- erudition
- exhibition
- expedition
- exposition
- extradition
- imposition
- inhibition
- inquisition
- intermission
- intuition
- malnutrition
- manumission
- obstetrician
- opposition
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 demolition. 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.
- acquisitions
- admonitions
- ammunitions
- apparitions
- beneficent
- coalitions
- coefficient
- coefficients
- competitions
- compositions
- definitions
- depositions
- dietitians
- dispositions
- exhibitions
- expeditions
- expositions
- inefficient
- inhibitions
- insufficient
- intermissions
- obstetricians
- oppositions
- politicians
- preconditions
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- artificial
- beneficial
- expeditious
- interstitial
- overwritten
- penicillin
- prejudicial
- repetitious
- sacrificial
- superficial
- superstitious
- surreptitious
- unforgiven
- unofficial
- disappearance
- incoherence
- incoherent
- interference
- intermittent
- penicillins
- perseverance
- reappearance
- reminiscence
- reminiscent
- collision
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- abdication
- aberration
- abnegation
- abrogation
- absolution
- acclamation
- acclimation
- accusation
- activation
- adaptation
- admiration
- adoration
- adulation
- advocation
- affectation
- affirmation
- affrication
- aggravation
- aggregation
- agitation
- allegation
- allocation
- alteration
- altercation
- amputation
How songwriters use these rhymes
She kept her demolition close, and her acquisition closer.
No family rhymes for demolition. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
Demolition alone, acquisitions in the chorus โ the song builds the consonant in.
Track the vowel from demolition to artificial and you have the chorus.
Demolition and abdication: the vowels are different but the consonants are kin.
Why demolition rhymes the way it does
In our engine, demolition registers as a four-syllable word on the short /ษ/ (/ษ/) that ends on a humming nasal. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 116 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 137, assonance 10,414, and consonance 842. 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 guidance: read the song aloud and listen for where a slant would tighten the line. Strict rhymes are the structural skeleton; the slant columns are where the personality of the lyric lives. With demolition, the slant work is doing more weight-bearing than it looks.
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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 demolition. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open demolition in RhymeForge above.