Words that rhyme with Forth
Forth reads as a low-register anchor on the page; phonetically it's one-syllable, anchored on the rounded /ษหr/, ending where it softens into a fricative tail. The lyric earns it by placement, not by selection. Sketch the rhyme pool and you get the strict-rhyme column is bare, no family rhymes survive the strict family test, and the vowel-only slant column is the deepest of the five. Sketch the lyric role and you get a common-tongue word. Reach for assonance first; the strict list is the safety net underneath it.
Open forth in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (3 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- north
- thenceforth
- henceforth
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 forth. 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.
- fourths
- baur
- boar
- bore
- chore
- cor
- core
- corps
- door
- dore
- dorr
- drawer
- floor
- flor
- for
- fore
- four
- gore
- hoar
- lor
- lore
- mohr
- mor
- more
- nor
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- board
- boart
- bored
- bores
- bork
- born
- borne
- bors
- borsch
- bort
- bourg
- bourn
- bourne
- bourse
- chord
- chores
- coarse
- cord
- cores
- cork
- corm
- corn
- corse
- course
- court
Consonance (1 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- ortho
Only 1 match for forth in this type โ the slant columns below pick up the slack.
How songwriters use these rhymes
You said forth, I heard north, neither of us was wrong.
No family rhymes for forth. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
She gave the forth away, then watched it come back as fourths.
Forth on the upbeat, board on the down โ the slant does the work.
Inside the line, forth echoes ortho on consonant alone.
Why forth rhymes the way it does
To understand why forth rhymes the way it does, start with the vowel โ the back /ษหr/, written /ษหr/ โ and the ending, which softens into a fricative tail. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 3 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 113, assonance 4,994, and consonance 1. 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. The songwriter's move is to pick a small set of strict rhymes for the chorus and open up to family and assonance through the verses. Forth rewards slant rhyming because the strict pool, when over-used, calls attention to itself.
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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 forth. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open forth in RhymeForge above.