Words that rhyme with Incident
For lyric work, incident behaves as a word the lyric earns weight from by context. Sound-wise: three-syllable, vowel on the mid /ษ/, finally it closes on the nasal-stop pairing. Its everydayness lets the song surprise around it. Pool data: nothing matches this word strictly, family rhymes are simply absent, and the slant pool is enormous on the vowel side. Its function in a song, meanwhile, is to act as a word the lyric earns weight from by context. The slant pool is huge enough that you'll never need to repeat a rhyme.
Open incident in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (1 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- coincident
Only 1 match for incident in this type โ the slant columns below pick up the slack.
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 incident. 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.
- incidents
- imprint
- reprint
- readmit
- resubmit
- clint
- dint
- flint
- glint
- hint
- lint
- mint
- quint
- splint
- sprint
- squint
- stint
- tint
- vint
- acquit
- admit
- befit
- commit
- dewitt
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- incidence
- insolent
- impotent
- indolent
- insolence
- immigrant
- principled
- stimulant
- instances
- impotence
- innocents
- insulin
- intricate
- principals
- principles
- immigrants
- instrument
- instruments
- stimulants
- disciplined
- synchronous
- innocence
- innocent
- principal
- principle
Consonance (0 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
No consonance matches for incident in our dictionary โ its closing consonant is rare in English.
How songwriters use these rhymes
There's the word for incident, and the older word for coincident, and the song between them.
No family rhymes for incident. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
It started as incident, ended as incidents, same vowel either way.
What we called incident, the lyric heard as incidence.
No consonance matches for incident โ the closing consonant is rare in our dictionary.
Why incident rhymes the way it does
The phonology of incident is a three-syllable core: the short /ษ/ (/ษ/), then it lands on a nasal-stop cluster. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 1 match, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 65, assonance 13,526, and consonance 0. That's a narrow strict column with a very deep slant well beneath it. Modern songwriting reads those slants as rhymes; the ear has been trained on them for a century. Practical: skim the strict column first and pick the two or three matches you can sing without thinking. Then move to assonance for the in-between lines. Incident reads as more memorable when the strict matches are reserved for the line endings that matter most.
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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 incident. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open incident in RhymeForge above.