Words that rhyme with Devoid
From a sound-design view, devoid is a word everyone uses on the rounded /ษษช/ glide, two-syllable, and it lands on a stopped consonant. It's a word everyone uses โ which is what makes it powerful in a lyric. Two readings: as data โ the perfect pool is workable but compact, family rhymes come up empty, the vowel-only slant column is the deepest of the five; as lyric โ a stop-by-stop-grocery-shelf word. The slant-by-vowel column will carry you a long way past the strict matches.
Open devoid in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (16 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- annoyed
- deployed
- destroyed
- employed
- steroid
- adroit
- detroit
- enjoyed
- droid
- toyed
- overjoyed
- redeployed
- unemployed
- coit
- maladroit
- underemployed
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 devoid. 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.
- avoids
- ahoy
- annoy
- decoy
- deploy
- destroy
- employ
- savoy
- droids
- voids
- enjoy
- boy
- cloy
- coy
- foy
- goy
- hoi
- hoy
- joy
- loy
- moy
- oi
- oy
- oye
- ploy
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- adjoin
- adjoins
- annoys
- anoint
- appoint
- appoints
- deploys
- destroys
- disjoint
- embroil
- embroiled
- employs
- invoiced
- purloin
- purloined
- recoil
- recoiled
- recoils
- rejoice
- rejoiced
- rejoin
- rejoined
- rejoins
- unspoiled
- conjoin
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- abed
- abode
- abrade
- abroad
- absurd
- accede
- accrued
- afraid
- agreed
- ahead
- allayed
- allowed
- allude
- aloud
- amid
- applaud
- arcade
- arrayed
- avowed
- ballade
- behead
- bestowed
- bestrode
- betrayed
- brigade
How songwriters use these rhymes
You said devoid, I heard annoyed, neither of us was wrong.
No family rhymes for devoid. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
From devoid to avoids, a consonant arrives and the rhyme reshapes.
The vowel between devoid and adjoin carries the rhyme โ the consonants step aside.
Inside the line, devoid echoes abed on consonant alone.
Why devoid rhymes the way it does
Devoid sits on the rounded /ษษช/ glide, transcribed /ษษช/ in our engine, and closes on a hard stop. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 16 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 30, assonance 1,724, and consonance 775. 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. In practice: start at the top of the perfect column, scan family next, and reach for the assonance pool when the strict matches feel worn. A lyric that uses only strict rhymes for devoid tends to read as dated; the contemporary ear forgives โ and often prefers โ the slant.
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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 devoid. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open devoid in RhymeForge above.