Words that rhyme with Obese
Map obese onto a phonological grid and you get: two-syllable, a tight high-vowel /iห/, ending that ends in a hissed consonant. Lyrically, it reads as an unguarded everyday word. Plain-speech words like this earn weight through context. Two readings: as data โ perfect rhymes turn up in abundance, family rhymes are simply absent, the vowel-only slant column is the deepest of the five; as lyric โ a low-register anchor. Start strict, scan family, and only reach for assonance when the line wants slant.
Open obese in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- apiece
- aris
- caprice
- cerise
- decease
- decrease
- police
- release
- agrees
- appease
- chemise
- chinese
- decrees
- degrees
- disease
- displease
- foresees
- lessees
- maltese
- rupees
- trapeze
- unease
- increase
- surcease
- cease
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 obese. 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.
- deceased
- decreased
- policed
- released
- toniest
- trendiest
- agree
- albee
- allee
- banshee
- chablis
- curie
- debris
- decree
- degree
- esprit
- foresee
- lessee
- louie
- marquee
- rupee
- increased
- northeast
- southeast
- beast
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- appeased
- diseased
- displeased
- accede
- accedes
- achene
- achenes
- achieve
- achieved
- achieves
- afield
- aggrieve
- aggrieved
- agin
- agleam
- agreed
- amin
- anneal
- antique
- antiques
- appeal
- appealed
- appeals
- asleep
- backseat
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- abbas
- abstruse
- abuse
- abyss
- across
- adverse
- advice
- aggress
- alas
- amass
- amiss
- arkose
- assess
- averse
- caboose
- caress
- coerce
- concise
- confess
- crevasse
- deduce
- depress
- device
- diffuse
- digress
How songwriters use these rhymes
All the words I learned for obese came back as apiece.
No family rhymes for obese. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
It started as obese, ended as deceased, same vowel either way.
What we called obese, the lyric heard as appeased.
The obese at the start of the line, the abbas tucked inside it, same consonant frame.
Why obese rhymes the way it does
To understand why obese rhymes the way it does, start with the vowel โ a tight high-vowel /iห/, written /e/ โ and the ending, which spills into a fricative. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 134 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 166, assonance 4,811, and consonance 450. That's a deep perfect column. The song can ride strict rhymes from end to end, only sliding into assonance when the line needs to surprise. In the room with a guitar: write toward the strict rhyme first, then go back through and replace the obvious ones with the assonance matches that earned their place. Obese is a word that benefits from the second pass.
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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 obese. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open obese in RhymeForge above.