Words that rhyme with Hour
A one-syllable word that reads as an unguarded everyday word, hour sits on the open /aส/ glide and flows into the next line via a liquid. It's a word everyone uses โ which is what makes it powerful in a lyric. The word arrives in song as a clock word. Search rhymes for hour long enough and you notice the pattern: perfect rhymes are thin on the ground, family rhymes come up empty, and there's a working assonance pool to draw from. Below is the full picked list across all five rhyme types โ start at the top, slant downward.
Open hour in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (16 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- bower
- cower
- dour
- flour
- flower
- glower
- our
- power
- scour
- shower
- sour
- tower
- devour
- empower
- overpower
- superpower
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 hour. 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.
- bowers
- coward
- cowards
- flours
- flowered
- flowers
- glowered
- hours
- ours
- powered
- powers
- scoured
- scours
- showered
- showers
- soured
- sours
- towered
- towers
- devoured
- devours
- empowered
- empowers
- overpowered
- overpowers
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- bouncer
- bouncers
- bounder
- browner
- browser
- browsers
- chowder
- counter
- countered
- counters
- crowder
- crowner
- dauber
- doubter
- doubters
- downer
- downers
- downward
- downwards
- flounder
- floundered
- flounders
- founder
- foundered
- founders
Consonance (0 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
No consonance matches for hour in our dictionary โ its closing consonant is rare in English.
How songwriters use these rhymes
There's the word for hour, and the older word for bower, and the song between them.
No family rhymes for hour. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
She gave the hour away, then watched it come back as bowers.
Hour at the line's beginning, bouncer at its end, same vowel humming through both.
No consonance matches for hour โ the closing consonant is rare in our dictionary.
Why hour rhymes the way it does
Hour sits on the /aส/ diphthong, transcribed /aสษr/ in our engine, and ends on a liquid that pulls the line forward. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 16 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 27, assonance 1,152, and consonance 0. The empty consonance column tells you something โ the closing consonant of this word is rare enough that nothing else in English shares it cleanly. Slant work has to come from the vowel side instead. In practice: start at the top of the perfect column, scan family next, and reach for the assonance pool when the strict matches feel worn. A lyric that uses only strict rhymes for hour tends to read as dated; the contemporary ear forgives โ and often prefers โ the slant.
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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 hour. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open hour in RhymeForge above.