Words that rhyme with Departed
Start from the sound: departed is a three-syllable word on the short /ษ/, and it lands on a stopped consonant. The line containing it usually mourns something. Engine returns: strict rhymes are scarce, nothing lands in the family-rhyme column, the assonance well runs into four figures. Lyric returns: a hollow-word. The slant pool is huge enough that you'll never need to repeat a rhyme.
Open departed in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (17 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- restarted
- uncharted
- bombarded
- discarded
- regarded
- retarded
- unguarded
- bighearted
- imparted
- carted
- darted
- smarted
- started
- carded
- larded
- disregarded
- fainthearted
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 departed. 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.
- disregard
- apart
- depart
- impart
- restart
- belgard
- bombard
- canard
- disbarred
- discard
- gabbard
- regard
- retard
- art
- cart
- carte
- chart
- dart
- fart
- hart
- heart
- mart
- part
- smart
- start
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- accosted
- adopted
- cathartic
- departing
- restarting
- absconded
- bombarding
- discarding
- regarding
- responded
- retarding
- imparting
- accosting
- acknowledged
- adopting
- adoptive
- agnostic
- alarming
- anarchic
- antarctic
- concocting
- deposits
- disarming
- discharging
- embarking
Consonance (19 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- unchartered
- bartered
- charted
- chartered
- hearted
- martyred
- partied
- ferreted
- gyrated
- merited
- narrated
- pirated
- prorated
- serrated
- spirited
- dispirited
- inherited
- infuriated
- deteriorated
How songwriters use these rhymes
She kept her departed close, and her restarted closer.
No family rhymes for departed. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
She gave the departed away, then watched it come back as disregard.
The vowel between departed and accosted carries the rhyme โ the consonants step aside.
Departed and unchartered share the closing shape, even when the vowels disagree.
Why departed rhymes the way it does
Departed is three-syllable, its rhyme-relevant vowel sitting on the centred /ษ/, then it closes on a hard stop. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 17 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 106, assonance 7,755, and consonance 19. 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. What matters when you're writing: the ear forgives slants in service of meaning. If the strict rhyme is the predictable word, the assonance match will usually hit harder. Departed is a word where the slant choice almost always reads as more thoughtful than the obvious end-rhyme.
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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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