Words that rhyme with Exempt
The phonetic facts first: exempt is two-syllable, the rhyme-bearing vowel is the short /ษ/, and the line lands on a stopped consonant. Common words like this gain weight from the company they keep on the line. In a song, the word is a plain-speech anchor. Behind it, the rhyme map shows perfect-rhyme territory is narrow, no family-rhyme matches turn up, and the vowel-only slant pool is deep enough to write a whole album from. The slant-by-vowel column will carry you a long way past the strict matches.
Open exempt in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (5 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- attempt
- contempt
- unkempt
- empt
- tempt
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 exempt. 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.
- attempts
- exempts
- empts
- tempts
- hemp
- kemp
- temp
- abet
- accept
- adept
- barbette
- barrette
- beget
- beset
- brunet
- brunette
- cadet
- cassette
- chevrette
- cornet
- corvette
- diskette
- doucet
- duet
- except
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- against
- commenced
- condensed
- dispensed
- entrenched
- retrenched
- unfenced
- avenged
- perplexed
- helped
- temps
- condemn
- condemned
- condemns
- amends
- ascends
- attends
- befriends
- commends
- consents
- contends
- defends
- depends
- descends
- descents
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- decamped
- encamped
- revamped
- compote
- empty
- humpty
- preempt
- sumpter
- trumpet
- bumped
- camped
- clamped
- cramped
- damped
- dumped
- humped
- jumped
- lumped
- plumped
- prompt
- pumped
- slumped
- stamped
- stomped
- stumped
How songwriters use these rhymes
There's the word for exempt, and the older word for attempt, and the song between them.
No family rhymes for exempt. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
It started as exempt, ended as attempts, same vowel either way.
The vowel between exempt and against carries the rhyme โ the consonants step aside.
Listen for the consonant under exempt and you'll hear it again under decamped.
Why exempt rhymes the way it does
In our engine, exempt registers as a two-syllable word on the mid /ษ/ (/ษ/) that snaps shut on a stop. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 5 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 110, assonance 13,007, and consonance 34. 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. Exempt 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 exempt. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open exempt in RhymeForge above.