Words that rhyme with Gate
A one-syllable word that reads as a workaday word, gate sits on the long /eษช/ and lands on a stopped consonant. Its everydayness lets the song surprise around it. The word arrives in song as an image anchor. Type rhymes for gate into any dictionary and the answer is roughly the same: perfect rhymes are common for this one, no family-rhyme matches turn up, and the assonance bucket is the workhorse here. The strict list gives you a chorus' worth of options before you ever need a slant.
Open gate in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- ate
- bait
- bate
- cate
- crate
- date
- eight
- fate
- fete
- frate
- freight
- grate
- great
- hate
- late
- mate
- pate
- plait
- plate
- rait
- rate
- sate
- skate
- slate
- spate
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 gate. 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.
- ates
- baits
- bates
- cates
- crates
- dates
- eighth
- eighths
- eights
- fates
- gates
- grates
- greats
- hates
- mates
- pates
- plaits
- plates
- rates
- sates
- skates
- slates
- spates
- states
- straights
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- gade
- aides
- aids
- blades
- braids
- fades
- glades
- grades
- jades
- maids
- raids
- shades
- spades
- suedes
- trades
- wades
- ace
- aced
- ache
- ached
- aches
- age
- aged
- ail
- ails
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- at
- aught
- baht
- bat
- batt
- bet
- bight
- bit
- bite
- blatt
- blight
- bloat
- blot
- blurt
- boat
- boot
- bot
- bott
- bought
- bout
- brat
- bright
- brit
- britt
- brought
How songwriters use these rhymes
Every time I write gate, the next line wants ate.
No family rhymes for gate. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
It started as gate, ended as ates, same vowel either way.
Gate at the line's beginning, gade at its end, same vowel humming through both.
The gate at the start of the line, the at tucked inside it, same consonant frame.
Why gate rhymes the way it does
To understand why gate rhymes the way it does, start with the vowel โ a long-a that lifts the line, written /a/ โ and the ending, which lands on a stopped consonant. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 190 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 202, assonance 5,495, and consonance 882. 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. 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. Gate 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 gate. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open gate in RhymeForge above.