Words that rhyme with Murder
For lyric work, murder behaves as a quotidian anchor. Sound-wise: two-syllable, vowel on the rhotic schwa, finally it spills out through a liquid consonant. Plain-speech words like this earn weight through context. Nothing matches this word strictly, family rhymes are simply absent, while the assonance count climbs into the thousands. Anyone hunting rhymes for murder ends up at the same crossroads: the deeper map matters more than the headline count. Assonance is where the modern songwriting toolkit lives for this one.
Open murder in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (3 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- birder
- girder
- converter
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 murder. 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.
- birders
- girders
- herders
- murdered
- murders
- chauffeur
- concur
- confer
- defer
- demur
- deter
- incur
- infer
- inter
- liqueur
- monsieur
- occur
- prefer
- recur
- refer
- transfer
- birr
- blur
- bur
- burr
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- burger
- burgers
- burgher
- burglar
- burglars
- burner
- burners
- burrer
- curler
- curlers
- cursor
- earner
- earners
- fervor
- firmer
- further
- furthered
- furthers
- gurnards
- learner
- learners
- mercer
- merger
- mergers
- murmur
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- adder
- bayard
- bidder
- birdie
- bladder
- breeder
- broader
- cedar
- ceder
- cheddar
- chowder
- cider
- coder
- coward
- crowder
- curried
- deader
- fader
- feeder
- fired
- flowered
- flurried
- fodder
- furrowed
- glider
How songwriters use these rhymes
You said murder, I heard birder, neither of us was wrong.
No family rhymes for murder. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
It started as murder, ended as birders, same vowel either way.
Murder at the line's beginning, burger at its end, same vowel humming through both.
Listen for the consonant under murder and you'll hear it again under adder.
Why murder rhymes the way it does
Murder sits on the /ษหr/ that mid-Atlantic ears class as one vowel, transcribed /ษหr/ in our engine, and ends on a liquid that pulls the line forward. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 3 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 56, assonance 3,662, and consonance 865. 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. How to use it: hold the strict matches for the moments the listener expects, and use the slants to surprise where they don't. Murder 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 murder. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open murder in RhymeForge above.