Words that rhyme with Excise
Singers reaching for excise find a common-tongue word on the surface and a two-syllable core on a long-i vowel that opens the mouth underneath โ one that trails off into a fricative. Common words like this gain weight from the company they keep on the line. Take the rhyme counts on their own terms: there's plenty in the strict column, no family-rhyme matches turn up, the slant pool is enormous on the vowel side. Take the lyric role separately and it's a workaday word. Build the chorus from the strict list; the slants are saved for the bridge.
Open excise in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- advice
- concise
- device
- entice
- misprice
- precise
- reprice
- suffice
- advise
- applies
- apprise
- arise
- baptize
- belies
- chastise
- complies
- comprise
- decries
- defies
- demise
- denies
- despise
- devise
- disguise
- emprise
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 excise. 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.
- enticed
- mispriced
- repriced
- sufficed
- apply
- awry
- belie
- bonsai
- comply
- decry
- defy
- deny
- descry
- hereby
- lanai
- rely
- reply
- retry
- supply
- untie
- versailles
- whereby
- diced
- feist
- geist
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- advised
- apprised
- baptized
- chastised
- comprised
- despised
- devised
- disguised
- revised
- surmised
- surprised
- abide
- abides
- admire
- admires
- affine
- affined
- affines
- afire
- alight
- align
- aligned
- aligns
- alike
- aline
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- abbas
- abstruse
- abuse
- abyss
- across
- adverse
- aggress
- alas
- amass
- amiss
- apace
- apiece
- aris
- arkose
- assess
- averse
- caboose
- caprice
- caress
- cerise
- coerce
- confess
- crevasse
- debase
- decease
How songwriters use these rhymes
All the words I learned for excise came back as advice.
No family rhymes for excise. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
It started as excise, ended as enticed, same vowel either way.
Track the vowel from excise to advised and you have the chorus.
The excise at the start of the line, the abbas tucked inside it, same consonant frame.
Why excise rhymes the way it does
Pull excise apart phonetically and you get a two-syllable word with the gliding /aษช/ (/i/) as the rhyme-bearing vowel; the close tails through a fricative. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 100 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 103, assonance 2,972, and consonance 495. 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. Practical guidance: read the song aloud and listen for where a slant would tighten the line. Strict rhymes are the structural skeleton; the slant columns are where the personality of the lyric lives. With excise, the slant work is doing more weight-bearing than it looks.
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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 excise. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open excise in RhymeForge above.