Words that rhyme with Metro
Treated as a stop-by-stop-grocery-shelf word, metro is also a two-syllable sound-shape on the round /ษ/ โ one that ends on an unbuttoned vowel. It's a word everyone uses โ which is what makes it powerful in a lyric. Two readings: as data โ perfect rhymes are not on the table, the family-rhyme classifier finds nothing, the vowel-only slant pool is deep enough to write a whole album from; as lyric โ an unguarded everyday word. The slant pool is huge enough that you'll never need to repeat a rhyme.
Open metro in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (1 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- retro
Only 1 match for metro 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 metro. 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.
- petrol
- abet
- baguette
- barbette
- barrette
- beget
- beset
- brunet
- brunette
- cadet
- cassette
- chevrette
- cornet
- corvette
- couchette
- diskette
- doucet
- duet
- fleurette
- forget
- gazette
- georgette
- jeanette
- lorette
- lorgnette
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- stretto
- whetstone
- meadows
- deadbolt
- headphone
- headphones
- headstone
- headstones
- meadow
- redcoat
- redcoats
- redpoll
- redpolls
- ghettos
- airglow
- cellphones
- cero
- demos
- elbow
- elbowed
- elbows
- farrow
- gemstone
- gemstones
- memo
Consonance (11 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- petri
- tetra
- atria
- nutria
- poetry
- sumatra
- cleopatra
- dietary
- psychiatry
- pituitary
- proprietary
How songwriters use these rhymes
There's the word for metro, and the older word for retro, and the song between them.
No family rhymes for metro. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
She gave the metro away, then watched it come back as petrol.
Metro at the line's beginning, stretto at its end, same vowel humming through both.
Metro and petri: the vowels are different but the consonants are kin.
Why metro rhymes the way it does
Pull metro apart phonetically and you get a two-syllable word with the round /ษ/ (/ษ/) as the rhyme-bearing vowel; the close ends on an unbuttoned vowel. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 1 match, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 160, assonance 11,190, and consonance 11. 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. 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. Metro rewards slant rhyming because the strict pool, when over-used, calls attention to itself.
More songwriting tools
Stuck on the chord side of the song? The chord progression builder on the Undercover Zest home page maps every common progression in every key, with borrowed chords and substitutions called out. Need a fresh angle on a stuck lyric? CollisionLab generates unexpected word pairings to break a writer's block. All free, no signup.
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 metro. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open metro in RhymeForge above.