Words that rhyme with Nowadays
You can read nowadays two ways: as a quotidian anchor, or as a three-syllable shape on the rising /eɪ/ that spills into a fricative. It's a word everyone uses — which is what makes it powerful in a lyric. It serves as a household-word in most lyrics. Rhymes for nowadays have a particular footprint: the strict column is unhelpful here, no family rhymes survive the strict family test, and the assonance options multiply into the thousands. Reach for assonance first; the strict list is the safety net underneath it.
Open nowadays in RhymeForge →Perfect rhymes (0 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
No strict perfect rhymes for nowadays in our dictionary. The slant columns below carry the load.
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 nowadays. 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.
- disallowed
- disavowed
- overcrowd
- allowed
- aloud
- avowed
- endowed
- enshroud
- disallow
- disavow
- bowed
- browed
- cloud
- cowed
- crowd
- dowd
- loud
- ploughed
- plowed
- proud
- shroud
- sowed
- stroud
- vowed
- wowed
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- rodeos
- protease
- stowaways
- motorize
- codify
- protege
- authorize
- motorized
- polarize
- automate
- automates
- motivate
- motivates
- potentate
- potentates
- waterway
- chromosomes
- codifies
- otiose
- sodomize
- sodomized
- cowardice
- romeos
- zodiac
- motorcade
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- pleiades
- radios
- studios
- murderers
- bermudas
- blockaders
- cicadas
- coincides
- considers
- counterbids
- crusaders
- embodies
- escudos
- evaders
- foreshadows
- insiders
- intruders
- invaders
- outsiders
- overcrowds
- palisades
- promenades
- providers
- supersedes
- tornadoes
How songwriters use these rhymes
No strict perfect rhymes for nowadays in our dictionary. The slant columns below carry the load.
No family rhymes for nowadays. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
Nowadays at the verse, disallowed at the line that follows it.
Track the vowel from nowadays to rodeos and you have the chorus.
Nowadays and pleiades: the vowels are different but the consonants are kin.
Why nowadays rhymes the way it does
The rhyme map for nowadays starts at the vowel — a long-a that lifts the line, IPA /eɪ/ — and ends where the line ends in a hissed consonant. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 0 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 84, assonance 4,969, and consonance 272. 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. Practical: skim the strict column first and pick the two or three matches you can sing without thinking. Then move to assonance for the in-between lines. Nowadays reads as more memorable when the strict matches are reserved for the line endings that matter most.
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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 nowadays. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open nowadays in RhymeForge above.