Words that rhyme with Devour
Devour, a two-syllable word that pushes the line forward, lands its weight on the open /aส/ glide and spills out through a liquid consonant. It's restless โ the line behind it tends to move. When a songwriter asks what rhymes with devour, the pool tells a specific story: the perfect column gives you just enough to start, the family-rhyme classifier finds nothing, while the slant column will get you through a verse. Its lyric role is a high-temperature word. Read the five sections in order; the line you're writing will tell you where to stop.
Open devour in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (16 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- empower
- bower
- cower
- dour
- flour
- flower
- glower
- hour
- our
- power
- scour
- shower
- sour
- tower
- overpower
- superpower
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 devour. 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.
- devoured
- devours
- empowered
- empowers
- bowers
- coward
- cowards
- flours
- flowered
- flowers
- glowered
- hours
- ours
- powered
- powers
- scoured
- scours
- showered
- showers
- soured
- sours
- towered
- towers
- overpowered
- overpowers
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- announcer
- announcers
- discounters
- encounter
- encountered
- encounters
- bouncer
- bouncers
- bounder
- browner
- browser
- browsers
- chowder
- cloudburst
- counter
- countered
- counters
- cowgirl
- cowgirls
- cowherd
- crowder
- crowner
- dauber
- doubter
- doubters
Consonance (0 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
No consonance matches for devour in our dictionary โ its closing consonant is rare in English.
How songwriters use these rhymes
You said devour, I heard empower, neither of us was wrong.
No family rhymes for devour. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
She gave the devour away, then watched it come back as devoured.
All night the devour turned into announcer, vowel-first, consonants letting go.
No consonance matches for devour โ the closing consonant is rare in our dictionary.
Why devour rhymes the way it does
Devour is two-syllable, its rhyme-relevant vowel sitting on a falling /aส/, then it flows into the next line via a liquid. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 16 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 27, assonance 1,152, and consonance 0. The empty consonance column tells you something โ the closing consonant of this word is rare enough that nothing else in English shares it cleanly. Slant work has to come from the vowel side instead. 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 devour 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 devour. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open devour in RhymeForge above.