Words that rhyme with Permission
On the page, permission is an idea-word; on the ear it's a three-syllable word on the short /ษ/ that lets the nasal carry the tail. It's a concept-word that wants a concrete rhyme to ground it. What the engine returns: strict rhymes arrive in number here, no family-rhyme matches turn up, and the assonance column dwarfs the others. Lyric-wise, the word reads as a thinking-word. The strict list gives you a chorus' worth of options before you ever need a slant.
Open permission in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- addition
- ambition
- audition
- condition
- edition
- musician
- petition
- position
- tradition
- transition
- tuition
- admission
- fruition
- magician
- nutrition
- partition
- physician
- rendition
- sedition
- submission
- suspicion
- technician
- transmission
- decision
- division
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 permission. 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.
- efficient
- additions
- admissions
- ambitions
- commissioned
- commissions
- conditioned
- conditions
- editions
- emissions
- magicians
- musicians
- omissions
- partitioned
- partitions
- permissions
- petitioned
- petitions
- physicians
- positioned
- positions
- renditions
- submissions
- sufficient
- suspicions
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- decisions
- judicial
- official
- religion
- appearance
- inherent
- militia
- ambitious
- arisen
- collisions
- delicious
- divisions
- envisioned
- envisions
- forgiven
- malicious
- militias
- provisions
- revisions
- suspicious
- commitment
- equipment
- coherent
- officials
- religions
Ending rhymes (25 shown)
A shared unstressed final syllable โ the window/shadow slant. Weaker than a perfect rhyme, completely idiomatic in song.
- commission
- mission
- emission
- omission
- abortion
- adoption
- expansion
- production
- remission
- action
- auction
- faction
- fraction
- function
- junction
- mansion
- option
- portion
- traction
- abduction
- absorption
- assumption
- attraction
- construction
- consumption
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- citation
- creation
- discussion
- donation
- emotion
- formation
- foundation
- location
- relation
- rotation
- taxation
- vacation
- assertion
- coercion
- compassion
- concussion
- devotion
- dilution
- exertion
- fixation
- migration
- mutation
- notation
- ovation
- pollution
How songwriters use these rhymes
He left me the permission; I gave him the addition back.
No family rhymes for permission. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
She gave the permission away, then watched it come back as efficient.
Permission at the line's beginning, decisions at its end, same vowel humming through both.
Permission and commission โ the window/shadow trick, two endings sharing one breath.
Inside the line, permission echoes citation on consonant alone.
Why permission rhymes the way it does
Permission is built around the short /ษ/ (/ษ/); it's three-syllable and rings out through a nasal. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 115 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 178, assonance 10,428, and consonance 856. 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. How to use it: hold the strict matches for the moments the listener expects, and use the slants to surprise where they don't. Permission pairs especially well with assonance because the vowel column is deeper than the consonant column.
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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 permission. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open permission in RhymeForge above.