Words that rhyme with Mare
On the page, mare is a word everyone uses; on the ear it's a one-syllable word on the open /ษหr/ that flows into the next line via a liquid. Its everydayness lets the song surprise around it. The perfect column carries weight on its own, family-rhyme territory comes up dry, while the slant pool, matched on vowel alone, is huge. If you typed what rhymes with mare to land here, the breakdown is this: the deeper map matters more than the headline count. Begin with the perfect list โ it carries plenty before the slant columns are needed.
Open mare in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- air
- ayre
- bare
- bear
- blare
- care
- chair
- cher
- dare
- ere
- err
- eyre
- fair
- fare
- flair
- flare
- frere
- gair
- gare
- glare
- hair
- hare
- heir
- lair
- lare
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 mare. 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.
- aired
- airs
- ayres
- bared
- bares
- bears
- blared
- blares
- cairn
- cairns
- cared
- cares
- chaired
- chairs
- dared
- dares
- erred
- errs
- fairs
- fared
- fares
- flared
- flares
- freres
- glared
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- beck
- becks
- bed
- beds
- beg
- begged
- begs
- bel
- belch
- belched
- bell
- belle
- belles
- bells
- bels
- belt
- belts
- ben
- bench
- bend
- bends
- benne
- bens
- bent
- best
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- ar
- are
- bar
- baur
- bier
- boar
- boor
- bore
- buhr
- car
- carr
- char
- chore
- cor
- core
- corps
- cour
- cure
- czar
- dire
- doer
- door
- dore
- dorr
- dower
How songwriters use these rhymes
The line ends on mare; the next one starts on air.
No family rhymes for mare. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
Mare at the verse, aired at the line that follows it.
What we called mare, the lyric heard as beck.
The mare at the start of the line, the ar tucked inside it, same consonant frame.
Why mare rhymes the way it does
Pull mare apart phonetically and you get a one-syllable word with the broad /ษหr/ (/ษหr/) as the rhyme-bearing vowel; the close flows into the next line via a liquid. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 70 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 94, assonance 8,212, and consonance 476. 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. 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. Mare 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 mare. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open mare in RhymeForge above.