Words that rhyme with Metric
Take metric apart phonetically and the bones are these: two-syllable, vowel on the high /ษช/, ending that lets the line dissolve into a fricative. Its everydayness lets the song surprise around it. Its job in a lyric is an unguarded everyday word, holding down whatever line it lands in. Look up rhymes for metric and you'll get a particular story: no strict pair turns up at all, family-rhyme territory comes up dry, and the assonance pool has more matches than any verse will use. When strict matches feel exhausted, the assonance column is where you go fishing.
Open metric in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (1 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- obstetric
Only 1 match for metric in this type โ the slant columns below pick up the slack.
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 metric. 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.
- metrics
- obstetrics
- geometrics
- econometrics
- bedeck
- exec
- quebec
- beck
- check
- cheque
- deck
- eh
- feck
- fleck
- geck
- heck
- heh
- keck
- lech
- lek
- meck
- neck
- pech
- peck
- rec
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- chetniks
- delphic
- ethnic
- gettings
- hectic
- metics
- pectic
- pelvic
- peptic
- sceptic
- septic
- settings
- skeptic
- technic
- betting
- ethnics
- fetish
- fetting
- fretted
- fretting
- getting
- jetted
- jetting
- larynx
- letting
Consonance (7 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- nitric
- patrick
- theatric
- biometric
- geriatric
- pediatric
- psychiatric
How songwriters use these rhymes
There's the word for metric, and the older word for obstetric, and the song between them.
No family rhymes for metric. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
Metric at the verse, metrics at the line that follows it.
What we called metric, the lyric heard as chetniks.
Metric and nitric: the vowels are different but the consonants are kin.
Why metric rhymes the way it does
To understand why metric rhymes the way it does, start with the vowel โ the clipped /ษช/, written /ษช/ โ and the ending, which spills into a fricative. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 1 match, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 38, assonance 12,210, and consonance 7. That's a narrow strict column with a very deep slant well beneath it. Modern songwriting reads those slants as rhymes; the ear has been trained on them for a century. 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. Metric 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 metric. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open metric in RhymeForge above.