Words that rhyme with Import
From a sound-design view, import is an unguarded everyday word on the /ษหr/ vowel, two-syllable, and it ends with a liquid-stop kick. Common words like this gain weight from the company they keep on the line. Engine returns: there's a deep bench of perfect rhymes here, no family rhymes survive the strict family test, the slant pool is enormous on the vowel side. Lyric returns: a household-word. Hold the perfect column for the chorus; let the verses sample the slant columns.
Open import in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- ignored
- implored
- abort
- assort
- athwart
- cavort
- consort
- contort
- deport
- distort
- escort
- exhort
- extort
- report
- resort
- support
- transport
- boart
- bort
- court
- dort
- fort
- mort
- ort
- port
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 import. 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.
- imports
- ignore
- implore
- outpour
- senor
- aborts
- contorts
- distorts
- exhorts
- extorts
- purports
- reports
- resorts
- retorts
- supports
- transports
- bortz
- courts
- forts
- ports
- quarts
- quartz
- shorts
- snorts
- sorts
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- deform
- forsworn
- ignores
- implores
- inform
- outpours
- outsource
- thenceforth
- informed
- informs
- malformed
- outsourced
- installed
- abhors
- absorb
- accords
- accost
- adores
- adorn
- affords
- aloft
- assault
- awards
- basalt
- conform
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- barite
- barret
- beret
- carat
- carrot
- chlorate
- courter
- curate
- ferret
- ferrite
- fluorite
- forte
- forty
- garret
- gyrate
- karat
- merit
- mortar
- narrate
- parrot
- pirate
- playwright
- porta
- porter
- pyrite
How songwriters use these rhymes
Every time I write import, the next line wants ignored.
No family rhymes for import. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
Import at the verse, imports at the line that follows it.
Import at the line's beginning, deform at its end, same vowel humming through both.
Inside the line, import echoes barite on consonant alone.
Why import rhymes the way it does
Import is two-syllable, its rhyme-relevant vowel sitting on the /ษหr/ vowel, then it closes on a liquid feeding into a stop. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 82 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 157, assonance 8,076, and consonance 115. 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 import, 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 import. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open import in RhymeForge above.