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-rhyme column has enough to live in, family rhymes are simply absent, the vowel-match pool carries the volume; as lyric โ a stop-by-stop-grocery-shelf word. Lean on the strict column for the hooks; the slants can colour the verses.
Open excess in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- assess
- confess
- express
- impress
- possess
- bless
- chess
- dress
- guess
- less
- mess
- press
- stress
- yes
- caress
- finesse
- obsess
- oppress
- recess
- redress
- suppress
- address
- process
- progress
- ness
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.
- arrest
- expressed
- invest
- best
- blessed
- breast
- chest
- desk
- guest
- nest
- pressed
- quest
- rest
- stressed
- test
- west
- abreast
- addressed
- arrests
- assessed
- attest
- attests
- behest
- caressed
- celeste
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- accent
- accept
- affair
- affect
- again
- against
- ahead
- alleged
- amen
- attempt
- attend
- aware
- cement
- collect
- compare
- connect
- consent
- correct
- declare
- declared
- defend
- defense
- depend
- despair
- detect
Ending rhymes (13 shown)
A shared unstressed final syllable โ the window/shadow slant. Weaker than a perfect rhyme, completely idiomatic in song.
- access
- reprocess
- compress
- duress
- gutless
- pontes
- regress
- salles
- soares
- vares
- flavorless
- garrigues
- intrusiveness
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- abuse
- adverse
- advice
- bias
- chaos
- discuss
- diverse
- embrace
- excuse
- ios
- mercy
- messy
- police
- precise
- produce
- pussy
- reduce
- reverse
- spicy
- ace
- base
- boss
- bus
- case
- chase
How songwriters use these rhymes
You said excess, I heard assess, neither of us was wrong.
No family rhymes for excess. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
Excess alone, arrest in the chorus โ the song builds the consonant in.
All night the excess turned into accent, vowel-first, consonants letting go.
Excess and access โ the window/shadow trick, two endings sharing one breath.
Listen for the consonant under excess and you'll hear it again under abuse.
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 75 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 139, assonance 11,640, and consonance 514. That's a deep perfect column. The song can ride strict rhymes from end to end, only sliding into assonance when the line needs to surprise. 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.