Words that rhyme with Depression
In phonetic terms, depression is a three-syllable anchor on the front /ษ/, which trails through a nasal hum. Songwriters anchor it with an image to keep the line from floating. Take the rhyme counts on their own terms: the perfect column gives you just enough to start, the family-rhyme classifier finds nothing, the slant pool, matched on vowel alone, is huge. Take the lyric role separately and it's a word that lives in the head before the senses. Reach for the assonance list whenever the strict pool starts repeating itself.
Open depression in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- accession
- aggression
- compression
- concession
- confession
- digression
- discretion
- expression
- obsession
- possession
- precession
- procession
- profession
- progression
- recession
- regression
- secession
- succession
- transgression
- impression
- freshen
- hessian
- session
- decompression
- indiscretion
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 depression. 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.
- aggressions
- concessions
- confessions
- depressions
- digressions
- discretions
- expressions
- obsessions
- oppressions
- possessions
- processions
- professions
- recessions
- regressions
- repressions
- transgressions
- impressions
- freshened
- freshens
- sessions
- indiscretions
- repossessions
- afresh
- depeche
- enmesh
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- eleven
- enmeshes
- especial
- refreshment
- refreshments
- taverna
- aberrant
- apparent
- awareness
- declarant
- depressant
- depressants
- elevens
- eleventh
- forbearance
- lieutenant
- lieutenants
- propellant
- propellants
- quiescent
- quintessence
- repellent
- repellents
- senescence
- suppressant
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- ablution
- accretion
- assertion
- carnation
- cetacean
- citation
- coercion
- commotion
- compassion
- completion
- concussion
- conflation
- creation
- cremation
- crustacean
- dalmatian
- damnation
- deflation
- deletion
- demotion
- depletion
- desertion
- devotion
- dictation
- dilution
How songwriters use these rhymes
Depression in the first verse, accession in the second, and a song between them.
No family rhymes for depression. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
She gave the depression away, then watched it come back as aggressions.
The vowel between depression and eleven carries the rhyme โ the consonants step aside.
The depression at the start of the line, the ablution tucked inside it, same consonant frame.
Why depression rhymes the way it does
Depression is three-syllable, its rhyme-relevant vowel sitting on the centred /ษ/, then it rings out through a nasal. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 30 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 74, assonance 10,974, and consonance 838. 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. The songwriter's move is to pick a small set of strict rhymes for the chorus and open up to family and assonance through the verses. Depression rewards slant rhyming because the strict pool, when over-used, calls attention to itself.
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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 depression. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open depression in RhymeForge above.