Words that rhyme with Devise
Start from the sound: devise is a two-syllable word on the open /aɪ/ diphthong, and it trails off into a fricative. The lyric earns it by placement, not by selection. Songwriters reach for it as a household-word. The strict-rhyme well runs deep, family-rhyme territory comes up dry, and the assonance well is bottomless. There's enough in the strict column to write a verse without leaving it.
Open devise in RhymeForge →Perfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- advise
- applies
- apprise
- arise
- baptize
- belies
- chastise
- complies
- comprise
- decries
- defies
- demise
- denies
- despise
- disguise
- emprise
- relies
- replies
- reprise
- supplies
- surmise
- surprise
- unwise
- advice
- concise
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 devise. 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.
- advised
- apprised
- baptized
- chastised
- comprised
- despised
- devised
- disguised
- revised
- surmised
- surprised
- apply
- awry
- belie
- bonsai
- comply
- decry
- defy
- deny
- descry
- hereby
- lanai
- rely
- reply
- retry
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- device
- enticed
- mispriced
- repriced
- sufficed
- abide
- abides
- admire
- admires
- affine
- affined
- affines
- afire
- alight
- align
- aligned
- aligns
- alike
- aline
- alines
- alive
- allied
- applied
- argyll
- arrive
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- ablaze
- abuzz
- accrues
- accuse
- agrees
- allays
- allows
- amaze
- amuse
- appease
- applause
- appraise
- arose
- arouse
- arrays
- ballets
- because
- bemuse
- bestows
- betrays
- bouquets
- canoes
- carouse
- chalets
- chartreuse
How songwriters use these rhymes
I keep on saying devise, and the night keeps saying advise back.
No family rhymes for devise. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
It started as devise, ended as advised, same vowel either way.
Devise at the line's beginning, device at its end, same vowel humming through both.
The devise at the start of the line, the ablaze tucked inside it, same consonant frame.
Why devise rhymes the way it does
To understand why devise rhymes the way it does, start with the vowel — the gliding /aɪ/, written /i/ — and the ending, which lets the line dissolve into a fricative. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 95 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 108, assonance 2,937, and consonance 730. 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 devise, 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 devise. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open devise in RhymeForge above.