Words that rhyme with Extension
In phonetic terms, extension is a three-syllable anchor on the centred /ษ/, which ends on a humming nasal. Pair it with something tactile and the line lifts. Songwriters asking for rhymes for extension run into the same map every time: the picked top sets below tell most of the story: perfect rhymes are thin on the ground, family-rhyme territory comes up dry, and the slant-by-vowel pool is enormous. Lyrically, the word arrives as an idea-word looking for a body. Assonance is where the modern songwriting toolkit lives for this one.
Open extension in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- ascension
- attention
- contention
- convention
- declension
- detention
- dimension
- dissension
- pretension
- prevention
- retention
- suspension
- invention
- gentian
- mention
- pension
- tension
- apprehension
- comprehension
- condescension
- hypertension
- hypotension
- intervention
- reinvention
- misapprehension
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 extension. 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.
- attentions
- contentions
- conventions
- declensions
- detentions
- dimensions
- extensions
- pretensions
- suspensions
- inventions
- mentioned
- mentions
- pensions
- apprehensions
- interventions
- madeleine
- patrolmen
- mensch
- again
- amen
- cayenne
- doyenne
- comedienne
- pirouette
- been
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- abstention
- advection
- affection
- collection
- complexion
- conception
- confection
- connection
- connexion
- contentious
- convection
- correction
- credential
- deception
- defection
- deflection
- detection
- direction
- dissection
- ejection
- election
- erection
- essential
- exception
- objection
Consonance (7 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- expansion
- mansion
- pensioner
- sunshiny
- moonshine
- sunshine
- overexpansion
How songwriters use these rhymes
There's the word for extension, and the older word for ascension, and the song between them.
No family rhymes for extension. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
From extension to attentions, a consonant arrives and the rhyme reshapes.
What we called extension, the lyric heard as abstention.
Listen for the consonant under extension and you'll hear it again under expansion.
Why extension rhymes the way it does
Extension is three-syllable, its rhyme-relevant vowel sitting on the mid /ษ/, then it trails through a nasal hum. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 26 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 58, assonance 10,997, and consonance 7. The empty family column matters less than it looks. Family rhymes are a strict-classifier construct; the songwriter's ear accepts most assonance matches in their place. 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 extension, 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 extension. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open extension in RhymeForge above.