Words that rhyme with During
Sound and sense both matter for during. The sound: two-syllable, vowel on the clipped /ษช/, ending that lets the line ring through a nasal. The sense: a common-tongue word. Common words like this gain weight from the company they keep on the line. What the engine returns: there are a few perfect rhymes, no more, family rhymes are simply absent, and the vowel-only slant column is the deepest of the five. Lyric-wise, the word reads as a low-register anchor. Treat the assonance list as the main shelf โ the strict column is the footnote.
Open during in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (14 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- curing
- luring
- mooring
- touring
- alluring
- assuring
- enduring
- ensuring
- insuring
- maturing
- obscuring
- procuring
- securing
- reassuring
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 during. 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.
- allure
- assure
- bonjour
- brochure
- couture
- demure
- detour
- endure
- ensure
- impure
- insure
- inure
- manure
- mature
- obscure
- procure
- secure
- unsure
- boor
- buhr
- cour
- cure
- jure
- lure
- moor
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- booking
- boorish
- brooking
- cooking
- footing
- hooking
- looking
- moorish
- pudding
- pulling
- puris
- pushing
- wooding
- bookings
- bushings
- footings
- jurists
- puddings
- purist
- purists
- surest
- bookish
- booklet
- booklets
- bullish
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- airing
- baring
- barring
- bearing
- blaring
- boring
- caring
- chairing
- charring
- cheering
- clearing
- daring
- dearing
- dering
- earring
- erring
- fearing
- firing
- flaring
- flooring
- gearing
- glaring
- goring
- haring
- hearing
How songwriters use these rhymes
Every time I write during, the next line wants curing.
No family rhymes for during. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
During at the verse, allure at the line that follows it.
All night the during turned into booking, vowel-first, consonants letting go.
Inside the line, during echoes airing on consonant alone.
Why during rhymes the way it does
Pull during apart phonetically and you get a two-syllable word with the clipped /ษช/ (/ษช/) as the rhyme-bearing vowel; the close lets the line ring through a nasal. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 14 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 37, assonance 3,280, and consonance 137. 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. During 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 during. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open during in RhymeForge above.