Words that rhyme with Fates
From a sound-design view, fates is a plain-speech anchor on the short /ษ/, two-syllable, and it tails through a fricative. It's a word everyone uses โ which is what makes it powerful in a lyric. Pool data: the perfect-rhyme column has enough to live in, family rhymes give you a few singable slant options, and the assonance well is bottomless. Its function in a song, meanwhile, is to act as a word everyone uses. Begin with the perfect list โ it carries plenty before the slant columns are needed.
Open fates in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- ates
- baits
- bates
- cates
- crates
- dates
- eights
- gates
- grates
- greats
- hates
- mates
- pates
- plaits
- plates
- rates
- sates
- skates
- slates
- spates
- states
- straights
- straits
- traits
- waites
Family rhymes (25 shown)
Same vowel, with a single consonant swapped for one from the same articulatory family. Slant rhymes that pass the ear test.
- aides
- aids
- blades
- braids
- fades
- glades
- grades
- jades
- maids
- raids
- shades
- spades
- suedes
- trades
- wades
- abrades
- arcades
- blockades
- brigades
- brocades
- cascades
- charades
- crusades
- decades
- degrades
Additive & subtractive (25 shown)
Same core sound, with an extra consonant added (or one dropped) at the end.
- ate
- bait
- bate
- cate
- crate
- date
- eight
- fate
- fete
- frate
- freight
- gait
- gate
- grate
- great
- hate
- late
- mate
- pate
- plait
- plate
- rait
- rate
- sate
- skate
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- aches
- apes
- bakes
- brakes
- breaks
- cakes
- capes
- chafes
- crepes
- drakes
- drapes
- eighth
- faiths
- fakes
- flakes
- grapes
- hakes
- jakes
- lakes
- makes
- quakes
- rakes
- rapes
- safes
- sakes
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- bats
- batts
- bets
- bites
- bits
- blitz
- bloats
- blots
- blurts
- boats
- boots
- bots
- botts
- bouts
- brats
- brits
- britts
- buts
- butts
- bytes
- cats
- chats
- cherts
- chits
- chutes
How songwriters use these rhymes
I keep on saying fates, and the night keeps saying ates back.
Fates here, aides there, the ear says they rhyme.
She gave the fates away, then watched it come back as ate.
Fates on the upbeat, aches on the down โ the slant does the work.
Listen for the consonant under fates and you'll hear it again under bats.
Why fates rhymes the way it does
Fates is built around the front /ษ/ (/ษ/); it's two-syllable and ends in a hissed consonant. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 55 matches, family rhymes 36, additive and subtractive together 266, assonance 6,469, and consonance 355. That's a generous landscape on both axes. A song can stay in strict rhymes across a verse without repeating itself, then drop into family rhymes for the bridge. How to use it: hold the strict matches for the moments the listener expects, and use the slants to surprise where they don't. Fates pairs especially well with assonance because the vowel column is deeper than the consonant column.
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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 fates. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open fates in RhymeForge above.