Words that rhyme with Exhibition
Exhibition is a word the songwriter reaches for when the line needs scaffolding: four-syllable, vowel sitting on the mid /ษ/, ending that rings out through a nasal. Songwriters anchor it with an image to keep the line from floating. Take the rhyme counts on their own terms: the perfect-rhyme column has enough to live in, the family-rhyme classifier finds nothing, the assonance bucket is the workhorse here. Take the lyric role separately and it's a thinking-word. There's enough in the strict column to write a verse without leaving it.
Open exhibition in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- abolition
- acquisition
- admonition
- ammunition
- apparition
- coalition
- competition
- composition
- definition
- demolition
- deposition
- dietician
- dietitian
- disposition
- erudition
- expedition
- exposition
- extradition
- imposition
- inquisition
- intermission
- intuition
- malnutrition
- manumission
- obstetrician
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 exhibition. 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.
- acquisitions
- admonitions
- ammunitions
- apparitions
- beneficent
- coalitions
- coefficient
- coefficients
- competitions
- compositions
- definitions
- depositions
- dietitians
- dispositions
- exhibitions
- expeditions
- expositions
- inefficient
- inhibitions
- insufficient
- intermissions
- obstetricians
- oppositions
- politicians
- preconditions
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- artificial
- beneficial
- expeditious
- interstitial
- overwritten
- penicillin
- prejudicial
- repetitious
- sacrificial
- superficial
- superstitious
- surreptitious
- unforgiven
- unofficial
- disappearance
- incoherence
- incoherent
- interference
- intermittent
- penicillins
- perseverance
- reappearance
- reminiscence
- reminiscent
- injudicious
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- abdication
- aberration
- abnegation
- abrogation
- absolution
- acclamation
- acclimation
- accusation
- activation
- adaptation
- admiration
- adoration
- adulation
- advocation
- affectation
- affirmation
- affrication
- aggravation
- aggregation
- agitation
- allegation
- allocation
- alteration
- altercation
- amputation
How songwriters use these rhymes
Every time I write exhibition, the next line wants abolition.
No family rhymes for exhibition. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
From exhibition to acquisitions, a consonant arrives and the rhyme reshapes.
Exhibition at the line's beginning, artificial at its end, same vowel humming through both.
The exhibition at the start of the line, the abdication tucked inside it, same consonant frame.
Why exhibition rhymes the way it does
The rhyme map for exhibition starts at the vowel โ the mid /ษ/, IPA /ษ/ โ and ends where the line ends on a humming nasal. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 118 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 137, assonance 10,413, and consonance 842. 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. 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. Exhibition 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 exhibition. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open exhibition in RhymeForge above.