Words that rhyme with Meow
As a one-syllable word, meow sits on the short /ษ/ and softens through an approximant. Its everydayness lets the song surprise around it. Its job in a lyric is a word everyone uses, holding down whatever line it lands in. Rhymes for meow have a particular footprint: perfect rhymes hand you a small starter set, the family column is blank, and the assonance count is workmanlike. The five sections below are ordered by strictness; reach as far down as the line requires.
Open meow in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- allow
- avow
- endow
- sangfroid
- aue
- bough
- bow
- brough
- brow
- chao
- chow
- ciao
- clough
- cow
- dow
- frau
- hao
- how
- howe
- lough
- now
- plough
- plow
- pow
- prow
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 meow. 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.
- abound
- abounds
- about
- account
- accounts
- afoul
- aground
- allowed
- allows
- aloud
- amount
- amounts
- announce
- announced
- around
- arouse
- aroused
- astound
- astounds
- avowed
- carouse
- confound
- confounds
- denounce
- denounced
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- aglow
- ago
- bashaw
- below
- bestow
- bordeaux
- chateau
- chateaux
- dunno
- escrow
- forego
- forgo
- gateau
- guffaw
- hello
- kayo
- macaw
- pernod
- plateau
- redraw
- rondeau
- rouleau
- rousseau
- tableau
- tableaux
Consonance (0 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
No consonance matches for meow in our dictionary โ its closing consonant is rare in English.
How songwriters use these rhymes
The line ends on meow; the next one starts on allow.
No family rhymes for meow. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
Meow alone, abound in the chorus โ the song builds the consonant in.
Track the vowel from meow to aglow and you have the chorus.
No consonance matches for meow โ the closing consonant is rare in our dictionary.
Why meow rhymes the way it does
The rhyme map for meow starts at the vowel โ the front /ษ/, IPA /ษ/ โ and ends where the line tails off through an approximant. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 37 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 276, assonance 903, and consonance 0. The empty consonance column tells you something โ the closing consonant of this word is rare enough that nothing else in English shares it cleanly. Slant work has to come from the vowel side instead. 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. Meow 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 meow. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open meow in RhymeForge above.