Words that rhyme with Examine
You can read examine two ways: as a stop-by-stop-grocery-shelf word, or as a three-syllable shape on the bright /aษช/ that rings out through a nasal. The lyric earns it by placement, not by selection. Its job in a lyric is a word the lyric earns weight from by context, holding down whatever line it lands in. When a songwriter asks what rhymes with examine, the pool tells a specific story: there are essentially no strict perfect rhymes, family rhymes give you a small but useful slant pool, and the slant-by-vowel pool is enormous. Slide from the strict column into the family column when the chorus needs a refresh.
Open examine 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 examine in our dictionary. The slant columns below carry the load.
Family rhymes (24 shown)
Same vowel, with a single consonant swapped for one from the same articulatory family. Slant rhymes that pass the ear test.
- haranguing
- preplanning
- cramming
- damming
- damning
- jamming
- lambing
- ramming
- slamming
- spamming
- banging
- banning
- branning
- canning
- clanging
- fanning
- ganging
- hanging
- manning
- panning
- planning
- scanning
- spanning
- tanning
Additive & subtractive (25 shown)
Same core sound, with an extra consonant added (or one dropped) at the end.
- ament
- harmattan
- abram
- exam
- began
- chauvin
- cyan
- diane
- divan
- harpin
- japan
- liane
- moulin
- outran
- quillman
- rattan
- saran
- sedan
- sudan
- catamaran
- am
- bam
- cam
- cham
- clam
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- ceramic
- dynamic
- glutamic
- ceramics
- dynamics
- encampment
- encampments
- revamping
- unchallenged
- amassing
- attaching
- attacking
- botanic
- combating
- combatting
- corralling
- dispatching
- galvanic
- germanic
- harassing
- mechanic
- mismanage
- organic
- recapping
- reflagging
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- abdomen
- acumen
- albumin
- alumna
- determine
- foramen
- gravamen
- nonhuman
- shireman
- uncommon
- amman
- ammon
- brahmin
- crewmen
- famine
- gammon
- salmon
- vermin
- alumnae
- alumni
- amnio
- bitumen
- commoner
- dominee
- domino
How songwriters use these rhymes
No strict perfect rhymes for examine in our dictionary. The slant columns below carry the load.
Examine here, haranguing there, the ear says they rhyme.
It started as examine, ended as ament, same vowel either way.
All night the examine turned into ceramic, vowel-first, consonants letting go.
Examine and abdomen share the closing shape, even when the vowels disagree.
Why examine rhymes the way it does
The rhyme map for examine starts at the vowel โ the bright /aษช/, IPA /i/ โ and ends where the line rings out through a nasal. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 0 matches, family rhymes 24, additive and subtractive together 84, assonance 6,610, and consonance 107. The mix gives you options across the board. Strict rhymes for the structural beats, family or assonance for the interior lines. In the room with a guitar: write toward the strict rhyme first, then go back through and replace the obvious ones with the assonance matches that earned their place. Examine is a word that benefits from the second pass.
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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 examine. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open examine in RhymeForge above.