Words that rhyme with Devotion
You can read devotion two ways: as the love song's first instinct, or as a three-syllable shape on the short /ษ/ that trails through a nasal hum. Romantic-anchor words like this hold whole genres up. The perfect-rhyme list is short, family-rhyme territory comes up dry, while the vowel-only slant pool is deep enough to write a whole album from. Search for what rhymes with devotion and the engine returns a recognisable shape: the deeper map matters more than the headline count. Assonance is where the modern songwriting toolkit lives for this one.
Open devotion in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (14 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- commotion
- demotion
- emotion
- promotion
- corrosion
- erosion
- explosion
- lotion
- motion
- notion
- ocean
- potion
- locomotion
- implosion
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 devotion. 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.
- demotions
- emotions
- promotions
- lotions
- motioned
- motions
- notions
- oceans
- potions
- quotient
- brioche
- apo
- apropos
- bourguignon
- overblown
- overflow
- overgrown
- overthrown
- reggaeton
- tallyho
- ufo
- unbeknown
- undergo
- gauche
- aglow
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- abdomen
- ambrosian
- atrocious
- explosions
- ferocious
- misspoken
- precocious
- reopen
- unbroken
- unspoken
- verboten
- component
- components
- condolence
- exponents
- opponent
- opponents
- proponent
- proponents
- remoteness
- reopened
- reopens
- unopened
- ambrosial
- ambrosia
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- accession
- accretion
- addition
- admission
- aggression
- ambition
- assertion
- attrition
- audition
- carnation
- cetacean
- citation
- clinician
- coercion
- cognition
- commission
- compassion
- completion
- compression
- concession
- concussion
- condition
- confession
- conflation
- contrition
How songwriters use these rhymes
She kept her devotion close, and her commotion closer.
No family rhymes for devotion. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
She gave the devotion away, then watched it come back as demotions.
All night the devotion turned into abdomen, vowel-first, consonants letting go.
Devotion and accession share the closing shape, even when the vowels disagree.
Why devotion rhymes the way it does
To understand why devotion rhymes the way it does, start with the vowel โ the mid /ษ/, written /ษ/ โ and the ending, which trails through a nasal hum. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 14 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 173, assonance 5,648, and consonance 939. 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. Devotion 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 devotion. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open devotion in RhymeForge above.