Words that rhyme with Exemption
Take exemption apart phonetically and the bones are these: three-syllable, vowel on the centred /ษ/, ending that lets the line ring through a nasal. Abstract words like this work best when the surrounding line is sensory. Sketch the rhyme pool and you get perfect rhymes simply aren't available, family rhymes are simply absent, and the assonance options multiply into the thousands. Sketch the lyric role and you get an idea-word. Modern lyric writing on this word lives almost entirely in the assonance pool.
Open exemption in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (3 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- redemption
- preemption
- emption
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 exemption. 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.
- exemptions
- redemptions
- madeleine
- patrolmen
- pirouette
- again
- amen
- cayenne
- doyenne
- comedienne
- been
- ben
- benne
- bren
- den
- en
- fen
- gen
- glen
- gren
- hen
- ken
- men
- pen
- ren
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- exemplum
- remembrance
- resemblance
- assemblage
- assembled
- assembles
- resembled
- resembles
- amendment
- amendments
- assemble
- commencement
- contentment
- dissemble
- entrenchment
- presentment
- resemble
- resentment
- resentments
- retrenchment
- retrenchments
- unhelpful
- emblem
- temperate
- tempest
Consonance (5 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- assumption
- consumption
- presumption
- resumption
- gumption
How songwriters use these rhymes
All the words I learned for exemption came back as redemption.
No family rhymes for exemption. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
It started as exemption, ended as exemptions, same vowel either way.
Exemption on the upbeat, exemplum on the down โ the slant does the work.
The exemption at the start of the line, the assumption tucked inside it, same consonant frame.
Why exemption rhymes the way it does
To understand why exemption rhymes the way it does, start with the vowel โ the front /ษ/, written /ษ/ โ and the ending, which ends on a humming nasal. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 3 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 44, assonance 11,594, and consonance 5. 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. 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 exemption, 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 exemption. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open exemption in RhymeForge above.