Words that rhyme with Hiatus
Hiatus: two-syllable, a stop-by-stop-grocery-shelf word, vowel sitting on the central /ส/, ending that ends in a hissed consonant. It's a word everyone uses โ which is what makes it powerful in a lyric. Two readings: as data โ there are essentially no strict perfect rhymes, family rhymes round out the strict column, the assonance count climbs into the thousands; as lyric โ a low-register anchor. Treat the assonance list as the main shelf โ the strict column is the footnote.
Open hiatus in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (4 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- pesetas
- comitatus
- betas
- gradus
Family rhymes (1 shown)
Same vowel, with a single consonant swapped for one from the same articulatory family. Slant rhymes that pass the ear test.
- cicadas
Only 1 match for hiatus in this type โ the slant columns below pick up the slack.
Additive & subtractive (25 shown)
Same core sound, with an extra consonant added (or one dropped) at the end.
- greatest
- latest
- commutate
- conjugate
- desecrate
- interstate
- intrastate
- overate
- overrate
- overweight
- reinstate
- underrate
- abate
- ablate
- await
- belate
- berate
- collate
- conflate
- create
- debate
- deflate
- dictate
- dilate
- elate
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- abeyance
- audacious
- bodegas
- capacious
- ceraceous
- contagious
- conveyance
- courageous
- created
- crustaceous
- elated
- fallacious
- flirtatious
- herbaceous
- loquacious
- mandamus
- mendacious
- outrageous
- pandanus
- predaceous
- prenatal
- salacious
- sebaceous
- tenacious
- verbatim
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- arthritis
- berettas
- bronchitis
- detritus
- gastritis
- botrytis
- coyotes
- palazzi
- phlebitis
- pleuritis
- coitus
- glottis
- gratis
- lattice
- layouts
- lettuce
- lotus
- matzoh
- notice
- payouts
- poets
- quiets
- riots
- situs
- status
How songwriters use these rhymes
There's the word for hiatus, and the older word for pesetas, and the song between them.
Between hiatus and cicadas the family rhyme does its quiet work.
It started as hiatus, ended as greatest, same vowel either way.
Hiatus at the line's beginning, abeyance at its end, same vowel humming through both.
Hiatus and arthritis: the vowels are different but the consonants are kin.
Why hiatus rhymes the way it does
Hiatus is two-syllable, its rhyme-relevant vowel sitting on a back-mid /ส/, then it tails through a fricative. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 4 matches, family rhymes 1, additive and subtractive together 268, assonance 6,499, and consonance 409. The mix gives you options across the board. Strict rhymes for the structural beats, family or assonance for the interior lines. How to use it: hold the strict matches for the moments the listener expects, and use the slants to surprise where they don't. Hiatus 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 hiatus. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open hiatus in RhymeForge above.