Words that rhyme with Duration
There's a particular shape to duration: three-syllable, built on the short /ษ/, ending that rings out through a nasal. Songs that use it well also reach for something physical nearby. Two readings: as data โ the perfect column carries weight on its own, the family-rhyme bucket is bare, the vowel-only slant pool is deep enough to write a whole album from; as lyric โ a concept-anchor. Build the chorus from the strict list; the slants are saved for the bridge.
Open duration in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- ablation
- carnation
- castration
- causation
- cessation
- cetacean
- citation
- conflation
- creation
- cremation
- crustacean
- dalmatian
- damnation
- deflation
- dictation
- dilation
- donation
- elation
- filtration
- fixation
- flirtation
- flotation
- formation
- foundation
- frustration
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 duration. 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.
- carnations
- castrations
- citations
- creations
- crustaceans
- dalmatians
- donations
- flirtations
- formations
- foundations
- frustrations
- gradations
- gyrations
- impatience
- impatiens
- impatient
- locations
- migrations
- mutations
- notations
- orations
- ovations
- plantations
- privations
- quotations
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- abrasions
- audacious
- awaken
- biracial
- capacious
- capsaicin
- ceraceous
- contagion
- crustaceous
- emblazon
- equations
- evasions
- fallacious
- flirtatious
- foramen
- forsaken
- gravamen
- hellacious
- herbaceous
- invasions
- loquacious
- mendacious
- menhaden
- misshapen
- mistaken
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- ablution
- accession
- addition
- admission
- aggression
- ambition
- assertion
- attrition
- audition
- clinician
- coercion
- cognition
- commission
- commotion
- compassion
- compression
- concession
- concussion
- condition
- confession
- contrition
- demotion
- dentition
- depression
- desertion
How songwriters use these rhymes
You said duration, I heard ablation, neither of us was wrong.
No family rhymes for duration. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
Duration alone, carnations in the chorus โ the song builds the consonant in.
Track the vowel from duration to abrasions and you have the chorus.
Inside the line, duration echoes ablution on consonant alone.
Why duration rhymes the way it does
To understand why duration rhymes the way it does, start with the vowel โ the short /ษ/, written /ษ/ โ and the ending, which ends on a humming nasal. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 766 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 556, assonance 4,765, and consonance 208. 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. What matters when you're writing: the ear forgives slants in service of meaning. If the strict rhyme is the predictable word, the assonance match will usually hit harder. Duration is a word where the slant choice almost always reads as more thoughtful than the obvious end-rhyme.
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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 duration. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open duration in RhymeForge above.