Words that rhyme with Excess
You can read excess two ways: as a quotidian anchor, or as a two-syllable shape on the centred /ษ/ that softens into a fricative tail. Its everydayness lets the song surprise around it. Two readings: as data โ the perfect column comes up empty, family rhymes are simply absent, the vowel-match pool carries the volume; as lyric โ a stop-by-stop-grocery-shelf word. The contemporary ear forgives โ and prefers โ the assonance matches here.
Open excess 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 excess 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 excess. 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.
- convex
- execs
- perplex
- triplex
- becks
- checks
- cheques
- decks
- dex
- ex
- flecks
- flex
- hex
- lex
- necks
- plex
- rex
- sex
- specks
- specs
- techs
- tex
- treks
- vex
- wrecks
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- headdress
- headset
- neckwear
- telex
- bedspread
- elsewhere
- headrest
- headrests
- headsets
- telexed
- egghead
- eggshell
- eggheads
- eggshells
- airfare
- airfares
- airhead
- airmen
- breastfed
- deadhead
- deadheads
- deathbed
- delftware
- healthcare
- henpeck
Consonance (10 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- access
- lexis
- nexus
- plexus
- texas
- praxis
- axis
- phototaxis
- anaphylaxis
- geotaxis
How songwriters use these rhymes
No strict perfect rhymes for excess in our dictionary. The slant columns below carry the load.
No family rhymes for excess. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
Excess alone, convex in the chorus โ the song builds the consonant in.
All night the excess turned into headdress, vowel-first, consonants letting go.
Listen for the consonant under excess and you'll hear it again under access.
Why excess rhymes the way it does
The rhyme map for excess starts at the vowel โ the centred /ษ/, IPA /ษ/ โ and ends where the line lets the line dissolve into a fricative. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 0 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 88, assonance 11,448, and consonance 10. 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. 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. Excess 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 excess. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open excess in RhymeForge above.