Words that rhyme with Departure
Departure: three-syllable, an unguarded everyday word, vowel sitting on the r-coloured schwa, ending that spills out through a liquid consonant. Its everydayness lets the song surprise around it. Songwriters reach for it as a household-word. The strict column is unhelpful here, no family-rhyme matches turn up, and the assonance well is bottomless. Use the assonance pool freely; the ear treats most of those matches as rhymes.
Open departure in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (3 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- archer
- marcher
- starcher
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 departure. 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.
- departures
- archers
- marchers
- abattoir
- superstar
- afar
- ajar
- bazaar
- bazar
- bizarre
- boyar
- cigar
- dinar
- disbar
- guitar
- navar
- sitar
- soutar
- subpar
- tatar
- baccarat
- ar
- are
- bar
- car
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- enlarger
- nonstarter
- nonstarters
- unchartered
- adopter
- adopters
- dishonor
- dishonored
- dissolver
- dissolvers
- massager
- massagers
- responder
- responders
- revolver
- revolvers
- transponder
- transponders
- arbor
- arbour
- ardor
- armer
- armor
- armour
- barber
Consonance (8 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- starchy
- archery
- demarche
- arch
- larch
- march
- parch
- starch
How songwriters use these rhymes
She kept her departure close, and her archer closer.
No family rhymes for departure. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
It started as departure, ended as departures, same vowel either way.
Track the vowel from departure to enlarger and you have the chorus.
Inside the line, departure echoes starchy on consonant alone.
Why departure rhymes the way it does
The phonology of departure is a three-syllable core: the rhotic schwa (/ษหr/), then it flows into the next line via a liquid. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 3 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 93, assonance 7,232, and consonance 8. That's a narrow strict column with a very deep slant well beneath it. Modern songwriting reads those slants as rhymes; the ear has been trained on them for a century. How to use it: hold the strict matches for the moments the listener expects, and use the slants to surprise where they don't. Departure pairs especially well with assonance because the vowel column is deeper than the consonant column.
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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 departure. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open departure in RhymeForge above.