Words that rhyme with Murmur
Treated as a word about how language sounds, murmur is also a two-syllable sound-shape on the rhotic schwa โ one that trails through a flowing liquid. It's a word about the medium the verse is travelling through. Anyone hunting rhymes for murmur ends up at the same crossroads: the picked top sets below tell most of the story: there are essentially no strict perfect rhymes, the family column adds a handful of singable slants, and the assonance well is bottomless. Lyrically, the word arrives as a sound word. When the strict column thins, the family column is the most singable next step.
Open murmur in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (3 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- firmer
- sturmer
- termer
Family rhymes (5 shown)
Same vowel, with a single consonant swapped for one from the same articulatory family. Slant rhymes that pass the ear test.
- burner
- earner
- learner
- sterner
- turner
Additive & subtractive (25 shown)
Same core sound, with an extra consonant added (or one dropped) at the end.
- murmured
- murmurs
- termers
- chauffeur
- concur
- confer
- defer
- demur
- deter
- incur
- infer
- inter
- liqueur
- monsieur
- occur
- prefer
- recur
- refer
- transfer
- birr
- blur
- bur
- burr
- cur
- durr
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- burners
- earners
- gurnards
- learners
- birder
- birders
- burger
- burgers
- burgher
- burglar
- burglars
- burrer
- curler
- curlers
- cursor
- fervor
- further
- furthered
- furthers
- girder
- girders
- herders
- mercer
- merger
- mergers
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- derma
- beamer
- bloomer
- bomber
- boomer
- brimmer
- brommer
- calmer
- clamor
- clamour
- climber
- comber
- crammer
- creamer
- dammer
- dimer
- dimmer
- dreamer
- emmer
- femur
- fermi
- flamer
- framer
- gamer
- glamor
How songwriters use these rhymes
The line ends on murmur; the next one starts on firmer.
Hold the murmur, then let it tilt into burner.
She gave the murmur away, then watched it come back as murmured.
Track the vowel from murmur to burners and you have the chorus.
Listen for the consonant under murmur and you'll hear it again under derma.
Why murmur rhymes the way it does
Murmur sits on the /ษหr/ vowel, transcribed /ษหr/ in our engine, and flows into the next line via a liquid. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 3 matches, family rhymes 5, additive and subtractive together 54, assonance 3,765, and consonance 471. The mix gives you options across the board. Strict rhymes for the structural beats, family or assonance for the interior lines. How to use it: hold the strict matches for the moments the listener expects, and use the slants to surprise where they don't. Murmur 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 murmur. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open murmur in RhymeForge above.