Words that rhyme with Obligation
There's a particular shape to obligation: four-syllable, built on the mid /ษ/, ending that ends on a humming nasal. Pair it with something tactile and the line lifts. If you typed what rhymes with obligation to land here, the breakdown is this: the strict-rhyme well runs deep, no near-perfect family slants exist for this one, while the assonance bucket is the workhorse here. Its lyric role is a non-image word. Stay in the perfect column for as long as it surprises you, then drift outward.
Open obligation in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- abdication
- aberration
- acclamation
- acclimation
- accusation
- activation
- adaptation
- admiration
- adoration
- adulation
- advocation
- affectation
- affirmation
- affrication
- aggravation
- agitation
- allocation
- alteration
- altercation
- amputation
- animation
- annexation
- annotation
- appellation
- application
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 obligation. 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.
- aberrations
- accusations
- adaptations
- admirations
- affirmations
- allegations
- allocations
- alterations
- altercations
- amputations
- animations
- annotations
- appellations
- applications
- arbitrations
- aspirations
- calculations
- cancellations
- celebrations
- circulations
- combinations
- compensations
- compilations
- complications
- computations
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- efficacious
- interracial
- ostentatious
- phenolphthalein
- proteinaceous
- reawaken
- monovalent
- reawakened
- tetravalent
- anaplasia
- ultimatum
- entertainment
- entertainments
- euthanasia
- infotainment
- reinstatement
- ultimatums
- multiracial
- perspicacious
- advantageous
- affidavit
- bacchanalia
- ignoramus
- neonatal
- prearranges
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- abolition
- absolution
- acquisition
- admonition
- ammunition
- apparition
- attribution
- coalition
- competition
- composition
- constitution
- contribution
- decompression
- definition
- demolition
- deposition
- devolution
- dietician
- dietitian
- diminution
- disposition
- dissolution
- distribution
- elocution
- erudition
How songwriters use these rhymes
The line ends on obligation; the next one starts on abdication.
No family rhymes for obligation. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
She gave the obligation away, then watched it come back as aberrations.
What we called obligation, the lyric heard as efficacious.
Obligation and abolition: the vowels are different but the consonants are kin.
Why obligation rhymes the way it does
Pull obligation apart phonetically and you get a four-syllable word with the centred /ษ/ (/ษ/) as the rhyme-bearing vowel; the close trails through a nasal hum. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 749 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 556, assonance 4,765, and consonance 208. 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. Writing-tip: don't end every line with the strict rhyme. Use the slant columns at the joints and the strict matches at the seams. Obligation works hardest when the slant carries the verse and the strict match closes the chorus.
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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 obligation. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open obligation in RhymeForge above.