Words that rhyme with Hour
Hour reads as a workaday word on the page; phonetically it's one-syllable, anchored on the open /aส/ glide, ending where it flows into the next line via a liquid. It's a word everyone uses โ which is what makes it powerful in a lyric. Its job in a lyric is a now/then word, holding down whatever line it lands in. Anyone hunting rhymes for hour ends up at the same crossroads: perfect rhymes are thin on the ground, no family-rhyme matches turn up, and the assonance pool is modest but usable. Take the five sections as a menu โ start where the verse points.
Open hour in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- cower
- flour
- flower
- power
- shower
- sour
- tower
- bower
- glower
- our
- scour
- dour
- devour
- empower
- overpower
- superpower
- horsepower
- manpower
- airpower
- bellflower
- brainpower
- coneflower
- cornflower
- firepower
- mayflower
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.
- flowers
- powers
- bowers
- coward
- cowards
- flours
- flowered
- hours
- powered
- scoured
- scours
- showered
- showers
- soured
- sours
- towered
- towers
- glowered
- ours
- 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.
- browser
- counter
- founder
- powder
- bouncer
- bouncers
- bounder
- browner
- browsers
- countered
- counters
- crowder
- crowner
- doubter
- downer
- downers
- downward
- downwards
- foundered
- founders
- fowler
- grounder
- howler
- louder
- ouster
Ending rhymes (25 shown)
A shared unstressed final syllable โ the window/shadow slant. Weaker than a perfect rhyme, completely idiomatic in song.
- acre
- actor
- after
- altar
- alter
- amber
- anchor
- anger
- answer
- archer
- armor
- armour
- author
- banker
- banner
- barber
- better
- bigger
- bitter
- blogger
- bomber
- border
- bother
- broker
- brother
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 cower, and the song between them.
No family rhymes for hour. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
It started as hour, ended as flowers, same vowel either way.
Hour at the line's beginning, browser at its end, same vowel humming through both.
Let hour fade into acre; the final syllable does the rhyming for you.
No consonance matches for hour โ the closing consonant is rare in our dictionary.
Why hour rhymes the way it does
Hour sits on a falling /aส/, transcribed /aสษr/ in our engine, and spills out through a liquid consonant. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 31 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 30, assonance 1,292, 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. How to use it: hold the strict matches for the moments the listener expects, and use the slants to surprise where they don't. Hour 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 hour. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open hour in RhymeForge above.