Words that rhyme with Dubois
Dubois belongs to the two-syllable group; its vowel is the rare /ɔɪ/, and it softens into a fricative tail. The lyric tradition treats it as a low-register anchor. It's a word everyone uses — which is what makes it powerful in a lyric. If you came here looking for what rhymes with dubois, here's the shape of it: the picked top sets below tell most of the story: perfect matches come in a small handful, no family rhymes survive the strict family test, and the assonance pool is the one that won't run out. Lyrically, the word arrives as a workaday word. Let the assonance column shape the verse; the strict matches can punctuate it.
Open dubois in RhymeForge →Perfect rhymes (14 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- rejoice
- choice
- voice
- annoys
- deploys
- destroys
- employs
- enjoys
- joys
- noise
- noyes
- ploys
- poise
- toys
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 dubois. 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.
- invoiced
- rejoiced
- foist
- hoist
- hoists
- joist
- joists
- moist
- voiced
- ahoy
- annoy
- decoy
- deploy
- destroy
- employ
- enjoy
- savoy
- boy
- cloy
- coy
- foy
- goy
- hoi
- hoy
- joy
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- boys
- adjoin
- adjoins
- adroit
- annoyed
- anoint
- appoint
- appoints
- avoid
- avoids
- conjoin
- conjoined
- deployed
- destroyed
- detroit
- devoid
- disjoint
- embroil
- embroiled
- employed
- enjoin
- enjoined
- enjoyed
- purloin
- purloined
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- abbas
- abstruse
- abuse
- abyss
- acer
- across
- adverse
- aggress
- alas
- amass
- amiss
- apace
- apiece
- aris
- arkose
- assay
- assess
- averse
- baser
- bassi
- basso
- besaw
- bossy
- bracer
- brassy
How songwriters use these rhymes
I keep on saying dubois, and the night keeps saying rejoice back.
No family rhymes for dubois. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
Dubois at the verse, invoiced at the line that follows it.
Dubois on the upbeat, boys on the down — the slant does the work.
Dubois and abbas: the vowels are different but the consonants are kin.
Why dubois rhymes the way it does
In our engine, dubois registers as a two-syllable word on the /ɔɪ/ diphthong (/ɔɪ/) that tails through a fricative. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 14 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 36, assonance 1,619, and consonance 481. 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. Dubois 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 dubois. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open dubois in RhymeForge above.