Words that rhyme with Important
Important is a common-tongue word: three-syllable, vowel sitting on the short /æ/, ending that closes on the nasal-stop pairing. It's a word everyone uses — which is what makes it powerful in a lyric. In a song, the word is a word the lyric earns weight from by context. Behind it, the rhyme map shows perfect rhymes simply aren't available, the family-rhyme list hands over a few solid slants, and the assonance bucket is the workhorse here. Treat the assonance list as the main shelf — the strict column is the footnote.
Open important in RhymeForge →Perfect rhymes (3 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- discordant
- mordant
- shortened
Family rhymes (1 shown)
Same vowel, with a single consonant swapped for one from the same articulatory family. Slant rhymes that pass the ear test.
- cordoned
Only 1 match for important in this type — the slant columns below pick up the slack.
Additive & subtractive (25 shown)
Same core sound, with an extra consonant added (or one dropped) at the end.
- overwrought
- conte
- daunt
- flaunt
- gaunt
- haunt
- jaunt
- taunt
- bashaw
- begot
- distraught
- foresaw
- guffaw
- macaw
- methought
- redraw
- reshot
- rethought
- withdraw
- aught
- aw
- bot
- brought
- caw
- chaw
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- importance
- informant
- absorbent
- immortals
- informants
- installment
- dormant
- formant
- portrait
- shortcut
- shortens
- shortness
- accordance
- apportioned
- proportioned
- immortal
- installments
- chortled
- jordans
- norland
- orphaned
- portman
- wardens
- abortions
- conformance
Consonance (3 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- fortnight
- portent
- irritant
How songwriters use these rhymes
I keep on saying important, and the night keeps saying discordant back.
Important here, cordoned there, the ear says they rhyme.
It started as important, ended as overwrought, same vowel either way.
Track the vowel from important to importance and you have the chorus.
Important and fortnight share the closing shape, even when the vowels disagree.
Why important rhymes the way it does
Pull important apart phonetically and you get a three-syllable word with the flat /æ/ (/æ/) as the rhyme-bearing vowel; the close closes on the nasal-stop pairing. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 3 matches, family rhymes 1, additive and subtractive together 64, assonance 10,095, and consonance 3. The mix gives you options across the board. Strict rhymes for the structural beats, family or assonance for the interior lines. What matters when you're writing: the ear forgives slants in service of meaning. If the strict rhyme is the predictable word, the assonance match will usually hit harder. Important is a word where the slant choice almost always reads as more thoughtful than the obvious end-rhyme.
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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 important. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open important in RhymeForge above.