Words that rhyme with Lure
For lyric work, lure behaves as a workaday word. Sound-wise: one-syllable, vowel on the rhotic schwa, finally it spills out through a liquid consonant. The lyric earns it by placement, not by selection. Engine returns: the perfect-rhyme list is short, no family rhymes survive the strict family test, the slant-by-vowel column hands you a steady set. Lyric returns: a stop-by-stop-grocery-shelf word. Each section below answers a slightly different question; pick the one your verse is asking.
Open lure in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- boor
- buhr
- cour
- cure
- jure
- moor
- muir
- nur
- poor
- pure
- spoor
- sure
- tour
- assure
- bonjour
- brochure
- couture
- demure
- detour
- endure
- ensure
- impure
- insure
- inure
- manure
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 lure. 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.
- boord
- boors
- cured
- cures
- lured
- lures
- moored
- moors
- sures
- toured
- tours
- yours
- yurt
- allured
- assured
- assures
- brochures
- detours
- endured
- endures
- ensured
- ensures
- insured
- insures
- inured
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- book
- booked
- books
- brook
- brooks
- bull
- bulls
- bush
- butch
- chook
- cook
- cooked
- cooks
- could
- crook
- crooks
- foot
- full
- good
- goods
- gook
- hood
- hoods
- hoofed
- hoofs
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- air
- ar
- are
- ayre
- bar
- bare
- baur
- bear
- beare
- beer
- bere
- bier
- blare
- boar
- bore
- car
- care
- carr
- chair
- char
- cheer
- cher
- chore
- clear
- cor
How songwriters use these rhymes
Every time I write lure, the next line wants boor.
No family rhymes for lure. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
She gave the lure away, then watched it come back as boord.
Track the vowel from lure to book and you have the chorus.
Lure and air: the vowels are different but the consonants are kin.
Why lure rhymes the way it does
Lure is one-syllable, its rhyme-relevant vowel sitting on the /ษหr/ that mid-Atlantic ears class as one vowel, then it spills out through a liquid consonant. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 34 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 38, assonance 803, and consonance 650. The empty family column matters less than it looks. Family rhymes are a strict-classifier construct; the songwriter's ear accepts most assonance matches in their place. In the room with a guitar: write toward the strict rhyme first, then go back through and replace the obvious ones with the assonance matches that earned their place. Lure is a word that benefits from the second pass.
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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 lure. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open lure in RhymeForge above.