Words that rhyme with Obsolete
For the rhyme search, what matters about obsolete is this: three-syllable, vowel on the bright /iห/, ending that lands on a closed syllable. Plain-speech words like this earn weight through context. The perfect column carries weight on its own, no family rhymes survive the strict family test, while the assonance well is bottomless. Type rhymes for obsolete into any dictionary and the answer is roughly the same: the deeper map matters more than the headline count. Begin with the perfect list โ it carries plenty before the slant columns are needed.
Open obsolete in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- compete
- complete
- concrete
- defeat
- receipt
- repeat
- backseat
- deceit
- discreet
- discrete
- petite
- replete
- incomplete
- indiscreet
- marguerite
- exceed
- indeed
- proceed
- succeed
- beat
- cheat
- eat
- feat
- feet
- fleet
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 obsolete. 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.
- obsoletes
- guarantee
- nominee
- referee
- backseats
- competes
- completes
- deceits
- defeats
- deletes
- elites
- petites
- receipts
- repeats
- agree
- debris
- decree
- degree
- absentee
- cit
- devotee
- licensee
- depletes
- excretes
- mistreats
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- proceeds
- lead
- achieve
- antique
- appeal
- asleep
- belief
- beliefs
- believe
- conceive
- critique
- cuisine
- deceased
- deceive
- eighteen
- esteem
- extreme
- fatigue
- fifteen
- ideal
- machine
- marine
- naive
- perceive
- police
Ending rhymes (3 shown)
A shared unstressed final syllable โ the window/shadow slant. Weaker than a perfect rhyme, completely idiomatic in song.
- decathlete
- aesthete
- gamete
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- albeit
- battery
- computer
- lottery
- theater
- acute
- alert
- alright
- auto
- beauty
- better
- butter
- daughter
- dessert
- diet
- dirty
- dispute
- duty
- fatty
- fighter
- forget
- forgot
- gotta
- insert
- invite
How songwriters use these rhymes
He left me the obsolete; I gave him the compete back.
No family rhymes for obsolete. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
From obsolete to obsoletes, a consonant arrives and the rhyme reshapes.
Obsolete on the upbeat, proceeds on the down โ the slant does the work.
Obsolete and decathlete โ the window/shadow trick, two endings sharing one breath.
Listen for the consonant under obsolete and you'll hear it again under albeit.
Why obsolete rhymes the way it does
Obsolete is three-syllable, its rhyme-relevant vowel sitting on the bright /iห/, then it snaps shut on a stop. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 151 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 380, assonance 8,179, and consonance 1191. 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. The songwriter's move is to pick a small set of strict rhymes for the chorus and open up to family and assonance through the verses. Obsolete rewards slant rhyming because the strict pool, when over-used, calls attention to itself.
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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 obsolete. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open obsolete in RhymeForge above.