Words that rhyme with Kermit
Take kermit apart phonetically and the bones are these: two-syllable, vowel on the clipped /ɪ/, ending that lands on a stopped consonant. It's an unremarkable word until the verse asks it to do something. Pool data: the perfect-rhyme column has enough to live in, no family rhymes survive the strict family test, and the slant pool, matched on vowel alone, is huge. Its function in a song, meanwhile, is to act as a stop-by-stop-grocery-shelf word. Stay in the perfect column for as long as it surprises you, then drift outward.
Open kermit in RhymeForge →Perfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- acquit
- admit
- befit
- dewitt
- refit
- submit
- transmit
- unfit
- forbid
- madrid
- rebid
- redid
- bit
- brit
- britt
- chit
- fit
- fitt
- flit
- git
- grit
- hit
- it
- kit
- knit
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 kermit. 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.
- acquits
- admits
- befits
- commits
- emits
- omits
- permits
- transmits
- submits
- bits
- blitz
- blitzed
- brits
- britts
- chits
- fits
- fitts
- frits
- fritts
- fritz
- glitz
- grits
- hits
- its
- kits
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- amid
- amidst
- forbids
- abridge
- abridged
- abyss
- addict
- addicts
- adhere
- adhered
- adheres
- admins
- adrift
- affixed
- afflict
- afflicts
- akin
- amir
- amiss
- appear
- appeared
- appears
- arrears
- assist
- assists
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- abate
- about
- abut
- acute
- adroit
- afloat
- afoot
- alert
- alight
- allot
- assert
- astute
- avert
- await
- backseat
- begat
- begot
- belate
- benight
- berate
- cahoot
- capote
- caput
- collate
- commute
How songwriters use these rhymes
She kept her kermit close, and her acquit closer.
No family rhymes for kermit. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
From kermit to acquits, a consonant arrives and the rhyme reshapes.
Track the vowel from kermit to amid and you have the chorus.
Listen for the consonant under kermit and you'll hear it again under abate.
Why kermit rhymes the way it does
Kermit sits on the high /ɪ/, transcribed /ɪ/ in our engine, and lands on a closed syllable. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 59 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 44, assonance 10,913, and consonance 907. 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. Writing-tip: don't end every line with the strict rhyme. Use the slant columns at the joints and the strict matches at the seams. Kermit works hardest when the slant carries the verse and the strict match closes the chorus.
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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 kermit. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open kermit in RhymeForge above.