Words that rhyme with Hold
A one-syllable word that reads as a workaday word, hold sits on the short /ษ/ and closes on a hard stop. It's a word everyone uses โ which is what makes it powerful in a lyric. It serves as a workaday word in most lyrics. Rhymes for hold have a particular footprint: strict rhymes are scarce, family rhymes come up empty, and the slant pool, matched on vowel alone, is huge. The slant-by-vowel column will carry you a long way past the strict matches.
Open hold in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- bold
- bowled
- cold
- doled
- fold
- gold
- mold
- mould
- old
- olde
- polled
- rolled
- scold
- sold
- strolled
- told
- tolled
- wold
- bolt
- colt
- jolt
- molt
- volt
- cajoled
- consoled
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 hold. 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.
- bolds
- colds
- folds
- golds
- holds
- molds
- moulds
- olds
- scolds
- bole
- boll
- bowl
- coal
- cole
- dhole
- dole
- droll
- foal
- goal
- hole
- knoll
- kohl
- mole
- nole
- noll
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- holt
- boles
- bolls
- bolts
- boned
- bowls
- cloned
- closed
- clothed
- coals
- coles
- colts
- combed
- doles
- domed
- dozed
- droned
- goals
- groaned
- holes
- holts
- homed
- honed
- hosed
- joles
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- bailed
- billed
- boiled
- broiled
- build
- celled
- child
- childe
- chilled
- coiled
- culled
- curled
- dolled
- drilled
- dulled
- dwelled
- failed
- felled
- field
- filed
- filled
- fjeld
- foiled
- gild
- grilled
How songwriters use these rhymes
Every time I write hold, the next line wants bold.
No family rhymes for hold. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
Hold alone, bolds in the chorus โ the song builds the consonant in.
Hold at the line's beginning, holt at its end, same vowel humming through both.
Hold and bailed share the closing shape, even when the vowels disagree.
Why hold rhymes the way it does
To understand why hold rhymes the way it does, start with the vowel โ the open /ษ/, written /ษ/ โ and the ending, which ends with a clean stop. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 48 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 202, assonance 6,620, and consonance 235. The empty family column matters less than it looks. Family rhymes are a strict-classifier construct; the songwriter's ear accepts most assonance matches in their place. What matters when you're writing: the ear forgives slants in service of meaning. If the strict rhyme is the predictable word, the assonance match will usually hit harder. Hold is a word where the slant choice almost always reads as more thoughtful than the obvious end-rhyme.
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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 hold. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open hold in RhymeForge above.