Words that rhyme with Mature
Treated as a workaday word, mature is also a two-syllable sound-shape on the rhotic schwa โ one that trails through a flowing liquid. It's a word everyone uses โ which is what makes it powerful in a lyric. If you typed what rhymes with mature to land here, the breakdown is this: the picked top sets below tell most of the story: strict rhymes are scarce, no near-perfect family slants exist for this one, and the slant column will get you through a verse. Lyrically, the word arrives as a word the lyric earns weight from by context. Each section below shows a curated top set; the live tool has the full pool behind it.
Open mature in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- allure
- assure
- bonjour
- brochure
- couture
- demure
- detour
- endure
- ensure
- manure
- obscure
- procure
- secure
- unsure
- impure
- insure
- inure
- boor
- buhr
- cour
- cure
- jure
- lure
- moor
- muir
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 mature. 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.
- allured
- assured
- assures
- brochures
- detours
- endured
- endures
- ensured
- ensures
- matured
- matures
- obscured
- obscures
- procured
- secured
- secures
- milieu
- insured
- insures
- inured
- boord
- boors
- cured
- cures
- lured
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- afoot
- caput
- chinook
- chinooks
- forsook
- kibbutz
- mistook
- precooked
- rebook
- rebooked
- retook
- unhook
- withstood
- book
- booked
- books
- brook
- brooks
- bull
- bulls
- bush
- butch
- chook
- cook
- cooked
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- abhor
- adhere
- admire
- adore
- afar
- affair
- afire
- ajar
- amir
- appear
- ashore
- aspire
- austere
- aware
- bazaar
- bazar
- before
- beware
- bizarre
- boyar
- career
- cashier
- cigar
- cohere
- compare
How songwriters use these rhymes
The line ends on mature; the next one starts on allure.
No family rhymes for mature. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
She gave the mature away, then watched it come back as allured.
Mature on the upbeat, afoot on the down โ the slant does the work.
Listen for the consonant under mature and you'll hear it again under abhor.
Why mature rhymes the way it does
In our engine, mature registers as a two-syllable word on the /ษหr/ that mid-Atlantic ears class as one vowel (/ษหr/) that 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. The songwriter's move is to pick a small set of strict rhymes for the chorus and open up to family and assonance through the verses. Mature rewards slant rhyming because the strict pool, when over-used, calls attention to itself.
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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 mature. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open mature in RhymeForge above.