Words that rhyme with Great
There's a particular shape to great: one-syllable, built on a tight high-vowel /iห/, ending that ends with a clean stop. It signals reach. The perfect-rhyme column is well-stocked, no family-rhyme matches turn up, while the vowel-only slant pool is deep enough to write a whole album from. Rhymes for great have a particular footprint: the deeper map matters more than the headline count. Stay in the perfect column for as long as it surprises you, then drift outward.
Open great 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
- gait
- gate
- 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 great. 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.
- grade
- 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
I keep on saying great, and the night keeps saying ate back.
No family rhymes for great. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
Great alone, ates in the chorus โ the song builds the consonant in.
Great on the upbeat, grade on the down โ the slant does the work.
Listen for the consonant under great and you'll hear it again under at.
Why great rhymes the way it does
Great is built around the singing /iห/ (/iห/); it's one-syllable and closes on a hard stop. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 192 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. In practice: start at the top of the perfect column, scan family next, and reach for the assonance pool when the strict matches feel worn. A lyric that uses only strict rhymes for great tends to read as dated; the contemporary ear forgives โ and often prefers โ the slant.
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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 great. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open great in RhymeForge above.