Words that rhyme with Plague
You can read plague two ways: as a plain-speech anchor, or as a two-syllable shape on the front /ษ/ that leaves the vowel hanging open. It's an unremarkable word until the verse asks it to do something. Engine returns: perfect rhymes are thin on the ground, no near-perfect family slants exist for this one, the assonance column dwarfs the others. Lyric returns: an unguarded everyday word. The contemporary ear forgives โ and prefers โ the assonance matches here.
Open plague in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- craig
- vague
- ache
- ake
- bake
- brake
- break
- cake
- drake
- fake
- flake
- haik
- hake
- jake
- lake
- make
- naik
- paik
- quake
- rake
- sake
- shaikh
- shake
- snake
- spake
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 plague. 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.
- plagued
- plagues
- a
- ae
- ay
- bay
- baye
- bey
- blay
- bley
- brae
- bray
- brey
- cay
- che
- chez
- clay
- cray
- dae
- day
- dey
- dray
- drey
- fay
- fe
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- ached
- aches
- baked
- bakes
- braked
- brakes
- breaks
- caked
- cakes
- drakes
- faked
- fakes
- flakes
- hakes
- jakes
- lakes
- makes
- quakes
- raked
- rakes
- sakes
- shakes
- snakes
- staked
- stakes
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- ag
- bag
- beg
- berg
- big
- blog
- bog
- brag
- brig
- bug
- burg
- chug
- clog
- cog
- crag
- dag
- dig
- dog
- drag
- drogue
- drug
- dug
- egg
- fag
- fig
How songwriters use these rhymes
All the words I learned for plague came back as craig.
No family rhymes for plague. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
It started as plague, ended as plagued, same vowel either way.
All night the plague turned into ached, vowel-first, consonants letting go.
Inside the line, plague echoes ag on consonant alone.
Why plague rhymes the way it does
Plague is built around the centred /ษ/ (/ษ/); it's two-syllable and ends on an open vowel. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 37 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 146, assonance 5,049, and consonance 209. The empty family column matters less than it looks. Family rhymes are a strict-classifier construct; the songwriter's ear accepts most assonance matches in their place. 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. Plague 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 plague. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open plague in RhymeForge above.