Words that rhyme with Lace
In phonetic terms, lace is a one-syllable anchor on the rising /eɪ/, which ends in a hissed consonant. It's an unremarkable word until the verse asks it to do something. Engine returns: you won't run short of perfect rhymes, no family rhymes survive the strict family test, the slant-by-vowel pool is enormous. Lyric returns: a word the lyric earns weight from by context. Start strict, scan family, and only reach for assonance when the line wants slant.
Open lace in RhymeForge →Perfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- ace
- base
- brace
- case
- chace
- chase
- dace
- face
- glace
- grace
- mace
- pace
- place
- race
- rais
- space
- trace
- vase
- baize
- bayes
- bays
- blaise
- blaize
- blase
- blaze
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 lace. 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.
- aced
- based
- baste
- braced
- chased
- chaste
- faced
- graced
- haste
- laced
- paced
- paste
- pastes
- placed
- raced
- spaced
- taste
- tastes
- traced
- waist
- waists
- waste
- wastes
- a
- ae
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- lase
- lays
- leis
- leys
- blazed
- braised
- crazed
- dazed
- fazed
- gazed
- glazed
- grazed
- phased
- phrased
- praised
- raised
- razed
- ache
- ached
- aches
- age
- aged
- aid
- aide
- aides
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- ass
- bass
- basse
- bice
- bis
- bless
- bliss
- blouse
- boose
- bos
- boss
- bouse
- bowse
- bras
- brass
- brus
- burse
- bus
- buss
- chasse
- chess
- choice
- class
- coos
- cos
How songwriters use these rhymes
Lace in the first verse, ace in the second, and a song between them.
No family rhymes for lace. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
She gave the lace away, then watched it come back as aced.
What we called lace, the lyric heard as lase.
The lace at the start of the line, the ass tucked inside it, same consonant frame.
Why lace rhymes the way it does
Lace is one-syllable, its rhyme-relevant vowel sitting on the gliding /eɪ/, then it trails off into a fricative. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 124 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 182, assonance 5,767, and consonance 463. 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: 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. Lace 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 lace. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open lace in RhymeForge above.