Words that rhyme with Hollow
Most songwriters treat hollow as a missing-word, but the phonology underneath matters: two-syllable, vowel on a back-of-the-mouth /oส/, ending that fades through an approximant. Grief-songs reach for it instinctively. The headline counts: perfect rhymes are thin on the ground, the family column is blank, and the assonance column dwarfs the others. The lyric headline: it works as a tonal anchor. Reach for assonance first; the strict list is the safety net underneath it.
Open hollow in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (5 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- follow
- swallow
- calo
- wallow
- apollo
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 hollow. 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.
- followed
- follows
- hollowed
- hollows
- swallowed
- swallows
- wallowed
- awe
- blah
- bra
- nah
- shah
- spa
- aha
- bourgeois
- hurrah
- pasha
- voila
- bah
- bois
- cha
- moi
- rah
- sha
- ska
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- waldo
- bravo
- sorrow
- borrows
- bronco
- broncos
- compost
- composts
- condo
- condos
- cosmos
- laos
- largo
- macho
- mako
- morrow
- motto
- mottos
- roscoe
- sancho
- sorrows
- taco
- tacos
- abo
- arco
Ending rhymes (25 shown)
A shared unstressed final syllable โ the window/shadow slant. Weaker than a perfect rhyme, completely idiomatic in song.
- barlow
- anglo
- solo
- willow
- hollo
- borrow
- cargo
- combo
- buffalo
- airflow
- aloe
- kilo
- outflow
- pueblo
- workflow
- audio
- grotto
- lotto
- otto
- bungalow
- piccolo
- airglow
- fallow
- inflow
- whitlow
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- collar
- dollar
- fellow
- halo
- mellow
- pillow
- polo
- scholar
- shallow
- yellow
- alley
- ally
- belly
- bully
- cello
- collie
- color
- cooler
- creole
- cruel
- daily
- dali
- dealer
- delhi
- dial
How songwriters use these rhymes
She kept her hollow close, and her follow closer.
No family rhymes for hollow. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
Hollow at the verse, followed at the line that follows it.
What we called hollow, the lyric heard as waldo.
Hollow and barlow โ the window/shadow trick, two endings sharing one breath.
Inside the line, hollow echoes collar on consonant alone.
Why hollow rhymes the way it does
Hollow is built around the round /oส/ (/oส/); it's two-syllable and softens through an approximant. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 5 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 63, assonance 5,509, and consonance 1119. That's a narrow strict column with a very deep slant well beneath it. Modern songwriting reads those slants as rhymes; the ear has been trained on them for a century. Writing-tip: don't end every line with the strict rhyme. Use the slant columns at the joints and the strict matches at the seams. Hollow works hardest when the slant carries the verse and the strict match closes the chorus.
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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 hollow. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open hollow in RhymeForge above.