Words that rhyme with Eclipse
Map eclipse onto a phonological grid and you get: two-syllable, the short /ɪ/, ending that softens into a fricative tail. Lyrically, it reads as a plain-speech anchor. It's a word everyone uses — which is what makes it powerful in a lyric. Songwriters reach for it as a workaday word. Perfect rhymes hand you a small starter set, there's a small family-rhyme pool to draw from, and the vowel-match pool carries the volume. The slant column is doing the heavy lifting; let it.
Open eclipse in RhymeForge →Perfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- ellipse
- equips
- outstrips
- blips
- chips
- dips
- drips
- flips
- grips
- hips
- lips
- mips
- nips
- pips
- quips
- rips
- ships
- sips
- skips
- slips
- snips
- strips
- thrips
- tips
- trips
Family rhymes (7 shown)
Same vowel, with a single consonant swapped for one from the same articulatory family. Slant rhymes that pass the ear test.
- bibbs
- bibs
- cribs
- dibs
- dribs
- nibs
- ribs
Additive & subtractive (25 shown)
Same core sound, with an extra consonant added (or one dropped) at the end.
- eclipsed
- equip
- outstrip
- unzip
- abyss
- amiss
- dismiss
- remiss
- roundtrip
- blip
- chip
- clip
- dip
- drip
- flip
- grip
- gyp
- hip
- kip
- kipp
- lip
- nip
- pip
- quip
- rip
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- acquits
- admits
- befits
- commits
- convince
- emits
- encrypt
- equipped
- evince
- omits
- outstripped
- permits
- transfix
- transmits
- unzipped
- affixed
- amidst
- betwixt
- convinced
- evinced
- transfixed
- unmixed
- adheres
- admins
- appears
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- collapse
- elapse
- elopes
- escapes
- perhaps
- recoups
- relapse
- apso
- bypass
- dropsy
- eyepiece
- gypsy
- lapis
- lupus
- mopus
- nonstops
- opus
- purpose
- showpiece
- stirrups
- synapse
- syrups
- tapas
- tipsy
- usurps
How songwriters use these rhymes
All the words I learned for eclipse came back as ellipse.
Hold the eclipse, then let it tilt into bibbs.
Eclipse at the verse, eclipsed at the line that follows it.
The vowel between eclipse and acquits carries the rhyme — the consonants step aside.
Inside the line, eclipse echoes collapse on consonant alone.
Why eclipse rhymes the way it does
The phonology of eclipse is a two-syllable core: the high /ɪ/ (/ɪ/), then it ends in a hissed consonant. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 28 matches, family rhymes 7, additive and subtractive together 59, assonance 10,689, and consonance 140. The mix gives you options across the board. Strict rhymes for the structural beats, family or assonance for the interior lines. 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. Eclipse 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 eclipse. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open eclipse in RhymeForge above.