Words that rhyme with Dermot
Dermot belongs to the two-syllable group; its vowel is the round /ษ/, and it closes on a hard stop. The lyric tradition treats it as a household-word. It's an unremarkable word until the verse asks it to do something. Songwriters reach for it as a stop-by-stop-grocery-shelf word. The strict-rhyme well runs deep, no family rhymes survive the strict family test, and the slant pool is enormous on the vowel side. The strict list is rich enough to anchor the whole song.
Open dermot in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- allot
- forgot
- surat
- ballade
- facade
- riad
- baht
- blot
- bott
- bought
- caught
- clot
- cot
- cott
- dot
- got
- hot
- jot
- khat
- knot
- lat
- lot
- lotte
- not
- nott
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 dermot. 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.
- allots
- bourgeois
- hurrah
- markkaa
- pasha
- blotch
- blotched
- blots
- botts
- clots
- cots
- dots
- hots
- knots
- lats
- lots
- lottes
- mots
- motts
- plots
- plotz
- pots
- potts
- rots
- scots
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- facades
- abbas
- abscond
- absconds
- absolve
- absolved
- absolves
- adopt
- adopts
- afar
- agog
- ajar
- alarm
- alarmed
- alarms
- apart
- aplomb
- atop
- avant
- awash
- banal
- bangkok
- barrage
- barraged
- baton
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- abate
- abet
- about
- abut
- acquit
- acute
- admit
- adroit
- afloat
- afoot
- alert
- alight
- assert
- astute
- avert
- await
- backseat
- barbette
- barrette
- befit
- begat
- beget
- belate
- benight
- berate
How songwriters use these rhymes
The line ends on dermot; the next one starts on allot.
No family rhymes for dermot. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
Dermot alone, allots in the chorus โ the song builds the consonant in.
All night the dermot turned into facades, vowel-first, consonants letting go.
Listen for the consonant under dermot and you'll hear it again under abate.
Why dermot rhymes the way it does
Pull dermot apart phonetically and you get a two-syllable word with the short /ษ/ (/ษ/) as the rhyme-bearing vowel; the close lands on a stopped consonant. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 62 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 71, assonance 6,690, and consonance 997. 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. 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. Dermot 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 dermot. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open dermot in RhymeForge above.