Words that rhyme with Microphone
Microphone is a three-syllable word built around a back-of-the-mouth /oส/, and it hums to a nasal close. Plain-speech words like this earn weight through context. It serves as a household-word in most lyrics. Type rhymes for microphone into any dictionary and the answer is roughly the same: the perfect column carries weight on its own, family rhymes give you a few singable slant options, and the assonance well runs into four figures. The strict list gives you a chorus' worth of options before you ever need a slant.
Open microphone in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- alone
- unknown
- cologne
- condone
- cyclone
- leone
- postpone
- trombone
- bourguignon
- overblown
- overgrown
- overthrown
- reggaeton
- unbeknown
- blown
- bone
- cone
- drone
- flown
- grown
- known
- loan
- lone
- mon
- own
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.
- shalom
- velodrome
- dome
- foam
- home
- chromosome
- comb
- gnome
- ohm
- roam
- tome
- aerodrome
- astrodome
- catacomb
- cosmodrome
- cyclostome
- ferrochrome
- hippodrome
- honeycomb
- liposome
- monochrome
- styrofoam
- chrome
- combe
- gloam
Additive & subtractive (25 shown)
Same core sound, with an extra consonant added (or one dropped) at the end.
- undergo
- condones
- cyclones
- leones
- postpones
- trombones
- unknowns
- unbeknownst
- owned
- wont
- baritones
- microphones
- silicones
- telephones
- ago
- bio
- dunno
- hello
- overflow
- ufo
- bemoaned
- bemoans
- condoned
- dethroned
- disowned
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- approach
- behold
- control
- controlled
- disclose
- enrolled
- explode
- expose
- exposed
- impose
- oppose
- opposed
- parole
- patrol
- promote
- remote
- suppose
- supposed
- diagnose
- diagnosed
- overflowed
- ufos
- velodromes
- envelope
- episode
Ending rhymes (15 shown)
A shared unstressed final syllable โ the window/shadow slant. Weaker than a perfect rhyme, completely idiomatic in song.
- xylophone
- telephone
- cellphone
- allophone
- anglophone
- francophone
- homophone
- megaphone
- saxophone
- sousaphone
- speakerphone
- videophone
- brimstone
- ketone
- lactone
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- antenna
- arena
- attorney
- banana
- binary
- casino
- latino
- linear
- piano
- volcano
- again
- amen
- ana
- banner
- begin
- bunny
- campaign
- cleaner
- cocaine
- cohen
- complain
- concern
- contain
- cuisine
- decline
How songwriters use these rhymes
The line ends on microphone; the next one starts on alone.
The microphone in the line, the shalom at the end of it โ same vowel, different door.
It started as microphone, ended as undergo, same vowel either way.
Track the vowel from microphone to approach and you have the chorus.
Microphone closes one line, xylophone the next โ the last syllable carries them home.
Microphone and antenna share the closing shape, even when the vowels disagree.
Why microphone rhymes the way it does
The rhyme map for microphone starts at the vowel โ the open /oส/, IPA /o/ โ and ends where the line trails through a nasal hum. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 126 matches, family rhymes 35, additive and subtractive together 355, assonance 4,823, and consonance 1283. That's a generous landscape on both axes. A song can stay in strict rhymes across a verse without repeating itself, then drop into family rhymes for the bridge. Practical guidance: read the song aloud and listen for where a slant would tighten the line. Strict rhymes are the structural skeleton; the slant columns are where the personality of the lyric lives. With microphone, the slant work is doing more weight-bearing than it looks.
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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 microphone. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open microphone in RhymeForge above.