Words that rhyme with Grimes
Approached as a workaday word, grimes is a two-syllable core sitting on the front /ษ/ โ which softens into a fricative tail. The lyric earns it by placement, not by selection. Sketch the rhyme pool and you get the perfect-rhyme list is short, family rhymes round out the strict column, and the assonance pool is the one that won't run out. Sketch the lyric role and you get a household-word. Family rhymes are the gentlest step away from strict; use them when the line wants softening.
Open grimes in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (11 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- chimes
- climbs
- climes
- crimes
- dimes
- limes
- primes
- rhymes
- rimes
- times
- sometimes
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.
- bines
- brines
- clines
- dines
- dynes
- fines
- kines
- lines
- lynes
- mines
- nines
- pines
- pynes
- rhines
- rhynes
- rines
- shines
- shrines
- signs
- sines
- spines
- tines
- tynes
- vines
- whines
Additive & subtractive (25 shown)
Same core sound, with an extra consonant added (or one dropped) at the end.
- chime
- climb
- crime
- dime
- grime
- lime
- lyme
- mime
- prime
- rhyme
- rime
- slime
- thyme
- time
- ai
- ais
- aye
- ayes
- bi
- bise
- buy
- buys
- by
- bye
- chai
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- aisles
- biles
- bribes
- brides
- chides
- chiles
- chimed
- chives
- choirs
- climbed
- dives
- drives
- fides
- files
- fives
- gibes
- glides
- guides
- guiles
- hides
- hives
- isles
- jibes
- knives
- kyles
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- aims
- ames
- balms
- beams
- berms
- blames
- blooms
- bombs
- booms
- brooms
- bums
- calms
- cams
- chums
- claims
- clams
- combes
- combs
- comes
- coms
- coombs
- crames
- crams
- creams
- crumbs
How songwriters use these rhymes
He left me the grimes; I gave him the chimes back.
The grimes in the line, the bines at the end of it โ same vowel, different door.
Grimes at the verse, chime at the line that follows it.
Grimes at the line's beginning, aisles at its end, same vowel humming through both.
Listen for the consonant under grimes and you'll hear it again under aims.
Why grimes rhymes the way it does
In our engine, grimes registers as a two-syllable word on the centred /ษ/ (/ษ/) that trails off into a fricative. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 11 matches, family rhymes 42, additive and subtractive together 177, assonance 3,059, and consonance 242. The mix gives you options across the board. Strict rhymes for the structural beats, family or assonance for the interior lines. 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. Grimes 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 grimes. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open grimes in RhymeForge above.