Words that rhyme with Explicit
Explicit reads as a common-tongue word on the page; phonetically it's three-syllable, anchored on the high /ɪ/, ending where it lands on a stopped consonant. Common words like this gain weight from the company they keep on the line. What the engine returns: the strict-rhyme column is bare, no family rhymes survive the strict family test, and the assonance count climbs into the thousands. Lyric-wise, the word reads as a low-register anchor. When strict matches feel exhausted, the assonance column is where you go fishing.
Open explicit in RhymeForge →Perfect rhymes (3 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- complicit
- illicit
- implicit
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 explicit. 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.
- elicits
- solicits
- reminisce
- abyss
- amiss
- dismiss
- remiss
- readmit
- resubmit
- bis
- bliss
- cris
- dis
- diss
- hiss
- kis
- kiss
- kris
- lis
- mis
- miss
- piss
- sis
- swiss
- this
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- assistance
- assistant
- assistants
- consisted
- consistence
- consistent
- enlistment
- existed
- existence
- existent
- persistence
- persistent
- resistance
- resistant
- subsistence
- dismissal
- epistle
- narcissus
- prohibit
- constricted
- convicted
- depicted
- dismissals
- exhibits
- noninterest
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- resistor
- transistor
- barista
- canasta
- canoeist
- elicit
- solicit
- adjuster
- disaster
- pilaster
- robusta
- unbiased
- blister
- lister
- mister
- sister
- twister
- imposter
- impostor
- basta
- biased
- bluest
- christie
- christy
- cosset
How songwriters use these rhymes
There's the word for explicit, and the older word for complicit, and the song between them.
No family rhymes for explicit. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
Explicit alone, elicits in the chorus — the song builds the consonant in.
Track the vowel from explicit to assistance and you have the chorus.
Explicit and resistor share the closing shape, even when the vowels disagree.
Why explicit rhymes the way it does
Explicit is built around the high /ɪ/ (/ɪ/); it's three-syllable and lands on a closed syllable. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 3 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 72, assonance 12,513, and consonance 434. 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. 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. Explicit 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 explicit. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open explicit in RhymeForge above.