Words that rhyme with Irritate
The phonetic facts first: irritate is three-syllable, the rhyme-bearing vowel is a front-of-the-mouth /eɪ/, and the line lands on a stopped consonant. The lyric earns it by placement, not by selection. Take the rhyme counts on their own terms: strict matches don't survive the classifier, no near-perfect family slants exist for this one, the assonance pool runs into the thousands. Take the lyric role separately and it's a stop-by-stop-grocery-shelf word. The slant column is doing the heavy lifting; let it.
Open irritate in RhymeForge →Perfect rhymes (0 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
No strict perfect rhymes for irritate in our dictionary. The slant columns below carry the load.
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 irritate. 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.
- irritates
- readmit
- resubmit
- acquit
- admit
- befit
- commit
- dewitt
- emit
- omit
- permit
- refit
- remit
- submit
- transmit
- unfit
- bit
- brit
- britt
- chit
- fit
- fitt
- flit
- git
- grit
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- militate
- litigate
- litigates
- felicitate
- precipitate
- indicates
- liquidate
- liquidates
- mithridate
- mithridates
- syndicates
- vindicates
- intimidate
- implicate
- implicates
- infiltrate
- kittiwake
- levitate
- intimidates
- imitate
- irrigate
- erudite
- administrate
- fairytale
- hesitate
Consonance (2 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- apartheid
- tripartite
Only 2 matches for irritate in this type — the slant columns below pick up the slack.
How songwriters use these rhymes
No strict perfect rhymes for irritate in our dictionary. The slant columns below carry the load.
No family rhymes for irritate. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
From irritate to irritates, a consonant arrives and the rhyme reshapes.
Track the vowel from irritate to militate and you have the chorus.
Irritate and apartheid share the closing shape, even when the vowels disagree.
Why irritate rhymes the way it does
To understand why irritate rhymes the way it does, start with the vowel — a front-of-the-mouth /eɪ/, written /a/ — and the ending, which shuts cleanly on a stopped consonant. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 0 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 47, assonance 11,823, and consonance 2. 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. How to use it: hold the strict matches for the moments the listener expects, and use the slants to surprise where they don't. Irritate 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 irritate. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open irritate in RhymeForge above.