Words that rhyme with Obsidian
Obsidian is a workaday word: three-syllable, vowel sitting on the mid /ษ/, ending that lets the nasal carry the tail. The lyric earns it by placement, not by selection. What the engine returns: perfect rhymes are not on the table, family-rhyme matches contribute a small near-perfect column, and the assonance well runs into four figures. Lyric-wise, the word reads as a workaday word. Treat family rhymes as a continuation of the strict column rather than as slant matches.
Open obsidian in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (2 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- meridian
- antemeridian
Only 2 matches for obsidian in this type โ the slant columns below pick up the slack.
Family rhymes (6 shown)
Same vowel, with a single consonant swapped for one from the same articulatory family. Slant rhymes that pass the ear test.
- nephridium
- presidium
- iridium
- idiom
- tritium
- cryptosporidium
Additive & subtractive (25 shown)
Same core sound, with an extra consonant added (or one dropped) at the end.
- counterbid
- bid
- cid
- did
- grid
- hid
- id
- kid
- lid
- mid
- quid
- rid
- skid
- slid
- squid
- amid
- forbid
- madrid
- rebid
- redid
- undid
- violin
- been
- bin
- brin
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- amphibian
- criterion
- fastidious
- oblivion
- valerian
- amphibians
- committeeman
- experience
- experienced
- percipient
- recipient
- recipients
- resilience
- arrhythmia
- bacterium
- beryllium
- delirium
- arrhythmias
- insidious
- insignia
- invidious
- affiliates
- amphibious
- arterial
- bacteria
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- circadian
- collodion
- comedian
- custodian
- arcadian
- widener
- median
- odeon
- nickelodeon
- gridiron
- ultramodern
- downtrodden
- echidna
- iodine
- menhaden
- postmodern
- premodern
- unburden
- bidden
- boudin
- broaden
- burden
- drawdown
- eden
- gladden
How songwriters use these rhymes
She kept her obsidian close, and her meridian closer.
Obsidian and nephridium: same vowel, kissing-cousin consonant.
It started as obsidian, ended as counterbid, same vowel either way.
What we called obsidian, the lyric heard as amphibian.
Obsidian and circadian: the vowels are different but the consonants are kin.
Why obsidian rhymes the way it does
Pull obsidian apart phonetically and you get a three-syllable word with the mid /ษ/ (/ษ/) as the rhyme-bearing vowel; the close lets the line ring through a nasal. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 2 matches, family rhymes 6, additive and subtractive together 62, assonance 12,730, and consonance 53. The mix gives you options across the board. Strict rhymes for the structural beats, family or assonance for the interior lines. What matters when you're writing: the ear forgives slants in service of meaning. If the strict rhyme is the predictable word, the assonance match will usually hit harder. Obsidian is a word where the slant choice almost always reads as more thoughtful than the obvious end-rhyme.
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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 obsidian. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open obsidian in RhymeForge above.