Words that rhyme with Likewise
You can read likewise two ways: as a word everyone uses, or as a three-syllable shape on the full-throated /aษช/ that tails through a fricative. It's an unremarkable word until the verse asks it to do something. Songwriters reach for it as a stop-by-stop-grocery-shelf word. There's plenty in the strict column, no family-rhyme matches turn up, and the slant-by-vowel pool is enormous. The perfect-rhyme list below is generous; lean on it before sliding into slant.
Open likewise in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- advise
- arise
- surprise
- eyes
- prize
- rise
- size
- wise
- comprise
- demise
- despise
- devise
- disguise
- goodbyes
- reprise
- revise
- unwise
- advice
- precise
- sunrise
- ayes
- dies
- dyes
- guise
- guys
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 likewise. 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.
- advised
- revised
- surprised
- baptized
- apply
- comply
- deny
- goodbye
- imply
- mumbai
- rely
- supply
- wised
- apprised
- chastised
- comprised
- despised
- devised
- disguised
- incised
- surmised
- aye
- bye
- chi
- cry
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- admire
- aligned
- alike
- alive
- allied
- alright
- arrive
- aside
- assigned
- awhile
- behind
- combined
- confined
- decline
- define
- defined
- denied
- design
- designed
- dislike
- divide
- divine
- expired
- implied
- inside
Ending rhymes (20 shown)
A shared unstressed final syllable โ the window/shadow slant. Weaker than a perfect rhyme, completely idiomatic in song.
- clockwise
- counterclockwise
- soliloquize
- allies
- antis
- semis
- dorise
- redeyes
- uprise
- cauterize
- pluralize
- prophesies
- strategize
- victimize
- dehumanize
- emulsifies
- immortalize
- dehumidifies
- individualize
- reindustrialize
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- applause
- browser
- busy
- caesar
- crazy
- disclose
- easy
- expose
- flowers
- impose
- laser
- lazy
- loser
- oppose
- plaza
- powers
- suppose
- user
- visa
- breeze
- buzz
- cause
- cheese
- choose
- chose
How songwriters use these rhymes
There's the word for likewise, and the older word for advise, and the song between them.
No family rhymes for likewise. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
From likewise to advised, a consonant arrives and the rhyme reshapes.
Likewise on the upbeat, admire on the down โ the slant does the work.
Likewise and clockwise โ the window/shadow trick, two endings sharing one breath.
Listen for the consonant under likewise and you'll hear it again under applause.
Why likewise rhymes the way it does
Likewise is built around a long-i vowel that opens the mouth (/i/); it's three-syllable and ends in a hissed consonant. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 405 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 429, assonance 3,493, and consonance 1043. 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. 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. Likewise 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.
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