Words that rhyme with Division
Division is a three-syllable word built around the centred /ษ/, and it rings out through a nasal. It's a concept-word that wants a concrete rhyme to ground it. What the engine returns: perfect rhymes turn up in abundance, the family column is blank, and the assonance pool has more matches than any verse will use. Lyric-wise, the word reads as a thinking-word. The strict list gives you a chorus' worth of options before you ever need a slant.
Open division in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- collision
- decision
- derision
- envision
- excision
- misprision
- precision
- recision
- rescission
- addition
- admission
- ambition
- attrition
- audition
- clinician
- cognition
- commission
- condition
- contrition
- dentition
- edition
- emission
- fruition
- logician
- magician
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 division. 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.
- collisions
- decisions
- divisions
- envisioned
- envisions
- provisions
- recisions
- rescissions
- revisions
- incisions
- visions
- violin
- akin
- begin
- berlin
- chagrin
- herein
- therein
- wherein
- within
- been
- bin
- brin
- chin
- din
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- additions
- admissions
- ambitions
- arisen
- balbriggan
- clinicians
- commissioned
- commissions
- conditioned
- conditions
- deficient
- echidna
- editions
- efficient
- emissions
- forgiven
- magicians
- munitions
- musicians
- omissions
- omniscient
- opticians
- partitioned
- partitions
- patricians
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- abrasion
- adhesion
- allusion
- aspersion
- aversion
- cohesion
- collusion
- conclusion
- confusion
- contusion
- conversion
- corrosion
- delusion
- diffusion
- dispersion
- diversion
- equation
- erosion
- evasion
- exclusion
- excursion
- explosion
- extrusion
- occasion
- occlusion
How songwriters use these rhymes
There's the word for division, and the older word for collision, and the song between them.
No family rhymes for division. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
It started as division, ended as collisions, same vowel either way.
Division on the upbeat, additions on the down โ the slant does the work.
Listen for the consonant under division and you'll hear it again under abrasion.
Why division rhymes the way it does
The phonology of division is a three-syllable core: the front /ษ/ (/ษ/), then it rings out through a nasal. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 116 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 52, assonance 10,503, and consonance 49. 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. 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 division 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 division. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open division in RhymeForge above.