Words that rhyme with Homicide
Homicide is a three-syllable word built around a long-i vowel that opens the mouth, and it snaps shut on a stop. Common words like this gain weight from the company they keep on the line. Search for what rhymes with homicide and the engine returns a recognisable shape: the perfect column carries weight on its own, family-rhyme territory comes up dry, while the assonance well is bottomless. Its lyric role is a low-register anchor. Spend the first verse in the perfect column before sampling the slants.
Open homicide in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- allied
- denied
- divide
- implied
- inside
- coincide
- modified
- occupied
- verified
- abide
- applied
- collide
- complied
- confide
- defied
- preside
- relied
- reside
- subside
- supplied
- misapplied
- subdivide
- alright
- invite
- polite
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 homicide. 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.
- coincides
- abides
- asides
- collides
- confides
- divides
- insides
- presides
- resides
- subsides
- genocides
- homicides
- overrides
- suicides
- apply
- comply
- deny
- goodbye
- imply
- mumbai
- rely
- supply
- resupply
- besides
- decides
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- sight
- site
- admire
- advice
- advise
- advised
- aligned
- alike
- alive
- arise
- arrive
- assigned
- awhile
- behind
- combined
- confined
- decline
- define
- defined
- design
- designed
- dislike
- divine
- expired
- inspire
Ending rhymes (25 shown)
A shared unstressed final syllable โ the window/shadow slant. Weaker than a perfect rhyme, completely idiomatic in song.
- monoxide
- genocide
- suicide
- harborside
- hydroxide
- prophesied
- riverside
- seaside
- wayside
- countryside
- fireside
- fratricide
- fungicide
- germicide
- glucoside
- glycoside
- herbicide
- pesticide
- silverside
- underside
- infanticide
- insecticide
- rodenticide
- chloride
- rarefied
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- already
- desired
- insider
- inspired
- media
- murderer
- provider
- understood
- video
- abroad
- absurd
- afraid
- ahead
- allowed
- amid
- bloody
- body
- brigade
- buddy
- cedar
- conclude
- daddy
- decade
- exceed
- exclude
How songwriters use these rhymes
Homicide in the first verse, allied in the second, and a song between them.
No family rhymes for homicide. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
It started as homicide, ended as coincides, same vowel either way.
The vowel between homicide and sight carries the rhyme โ the consonants step aside.
Sing homicide, answer with monoxide: the endings lean on each other and hold.
Homicide and already: the vowels are different but the consonants are kin.
Why homicide rhymes the way it does
Homicide sits on the open /aษช/ diphthong, transcribed /i/ in our engine, and lands on a stopped consonant. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 379 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 254, assonance 3,796, and consonance 1082. 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. Practical guidance: read the song aloud and listen for where a slant would tighten the line. Strict rhymes are the structural skeleton; the slant columns are where the personality of the lyric lives. With homicide, the slant work is doing more weight-bearing than it looks.
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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 homicide. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open homicide in RhymeForge above.