Words that rhyme with Meantime
Take meantime apart phonetically and the bones are these: two-syllable, vowel on a long-i vowel that opens the mouth, ending that lets the nasal carry the tail. Its everydayness lets the song surprise around it. This one travels in song as a low-register anchor. Search rhymes for meantime long enough and you notice the pattern: strict matches show up in low numbers, family rhymes round out the strict column, and the assonance options multiply into the thousands. Treat family rhymes as a continuation of the strict column rather than as slant matches.
Open meantime in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- climb
- crime
- lime
- prime
- time
- sublime
- enzyme
- lifetime
- sometime
- chime
- dime
- grime
- lyme
- mime
- rhyme
- slime
- thyme
- airtime
- bedtime
- daytime
- halftime
- longtime
- pastime
- showtime
- wartime
Family rhymes (25 shown)
Same vowel, with a single consonant swapped for one from the same articulatory family. Slant rhymes that pass the ear test.
- decline
- define
- design
- divine
- fine
- line
- mine
- pine
- shine
- sign
- spine
- wine
- align
- assign
- benign
- confine
- incline
- refine
- airline
- deadline
- headline
- online
- outline
- pipeline
- sunshine
Additive & subtractive (25 shown)
Same core sound, with an extra consonant added (or one dropped) at the end.
- climbed
- sometimes
- apply
- comply
- deny
- goodbye
- imply
- mumbai
- rely
- supply
- chimes
- climbs
- crimes
- dimes
- grimes
- limes
- primes
- rhymes
- times
- daytimes
- enzymes
- halftimes
- lifetimes
- pastimes
- wartimes
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- aligned
- assigned
- behind
- combined
- confined
- defined
- designed
- refined
- resigned
- admire
- advice
- advise
- advised
- alike
- alive
- allied
- alright
- arise
- arrive
- aside
- awhile
- denied
- dislike
- divide
- expired
Ending rhymes (5 shown)
A shared unstressed final syllable โ the window/shadow slant. Weaker than a perfect rhyme, completely idiomatic in song.
- downtime
- bigtime
- centime
- noontime
- coenzyme
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- assume
- became
- become
- bomber
- confirm
- consume
- costume
- demo
- drama
- esteem
- exam
- extreme
- grammar
- hammer
- homer
- humor
- mommy
- palmer
- perfume
- poem
- regime
- resume
- semi
- summer
- supreme
How songwriters use these rhymes
There's the word for meantime, and the older word for climb, and the song between them.
Between meantime and decline the family rhyme does its quiet work.
Meantime at the verse, climbed at the line that follows it.
What we called meantime, the lyric heard as aligned.
Meantime closes one line, downtime the next โ the last syllable carries them home.
Listen for the consonant under meantime and you'll hear it again under assume.
Why meantime rhymes the way it does
Meantime sits on the full-throated /aษช/, transcribed /i/ in our engine, and lets the line ring through a nasal. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 45 matches, family rhymes 141, additive and subtractive together 222, assonance 4,015, and consonance 635. The mix gives you options across the board. Strict rhymes for the structural beats, family or assonance for the interior lines. How to use it: hold the strict matches for the moments the listener expects, and use the slants to surprise where they don't. Meantime pairs especially well with assonance because the vowel column is deeper than the consonant column.
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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 meantime. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open meantime in RhymeForge above.