Words that rhyme with Eighth
For the rhyme search, what matters about eighth is this: one-syllable, vowel on the mid /ษ/, ending that tails through a fricative. It's a word everyone uses โ which is what makes it powerful in a lyric. Songwriters reach for it as a stop-by-stop-grocery-shelf word. The strict column is unhelpful here, no family rhymes survive the strict family test, and the vowel-only slant pool is deep enough to write a whole album from. Modern songwriting on this word is an assonance-first practice.
Open eighth in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (0 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
No strict perfect rhymes for eighth in our dictionary. The slant columns below carry the load.
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 eighth. 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.
- eighths
- ate
- bait
- bate
- cate
- crate
- date
- eight
- fate
- fete
- frate
- freight
- gait
- gate
- grate
- great
- hate
- late
- mate
- pate
- plait
- plate
- rait
- rate
- sate
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- ates
- baits
- bates
- cates
- crates
- dates
- eights
- fates
- gates
- grates
- greats
- hates
- mates
- pates
- plaits
- plates
- rates
- sates
- skates
- slates
- spates
- states
- straights
- straits
- traits
Consonance (2 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- eightieth
- thirtieth
Only 2 matches for eighth in this type โ the slant columns below pick up the slack.
How songwriters use these rhymes
No strict perfect rhymes for eighth in our dictionary. The slant columns below carry the load.
No family rhymes for eighth. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
Eighth at the verse, eighths at the line that follows it.
Track the vowel from eighth to ates and you have the chorus.
The eighth at the start of the line, the eightieth tucked inside it, same consonant frame.
Why eighth rhymes the way it does
To understand why eighth rhymes the way it does, start with the vowel โ the short /ษ/, written /ษ/ โ and the ending, which spills into a fricative. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 0 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 238, assonance 5,751, and consonance 2. That's a narrow strict column with a very deep slant well beneath it. Modern songwriting reads those slants as rhymes; the ear has been trained on them for a century. 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. Eighth 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 eighth. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open eighth in RhymeForge above.