Words that rhyme with Plate
You can read plate two ways: as a workaday word, or as a one-syllable shape on the gliding /eษช/ that lands on a closed syllable. It's a word everyone uses โ which is what makes it powerful in a lyric. The assonance options multiply into the thousands, no family-rhyme matches turn up, and there's no shortage of perfect matches. Run rhymes for plate through any half-decent engine and you get this shape: the pull is toward slant work. The strict list is rich enough to anchor the whole song.
Open plate in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- ate
- bait
- bate
- cate
- crate
- date
- eight
- fate
- fete
- frate
- freight
- gait
- gate
- grate
- great
- hate
- late
- mate
- pate
- rait
- rate
- sate
- skate
- slate
- spate
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 plate. 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.
- ates
- baits
- bates
- cates
- crates
- dates
- eighth
- eighths
- eights
- fates
- gates
- grates
- greats
- hates
- mates
- pates
- plaits
- plates
- rates
- sates
- skates
- slates
- spates
- states
- straights
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- played
- aides
- aids
- blades
- braids
- fades
- glades
- grades
- jades
- maids
- raids
- shades
- spades
- suedes
- trades
- wades
- ace
- aced
- ache
- ached
- aches
- age
- aged
- ail
- ails
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- at
- aught
- baht
- bat
- batt
- bet
- bight
- bit
- bite
- blatt
- blight
- bloat
- blot
- blurt
- boat
- boot
- bot
- bott
- bought
- bout
- brat
- bright
- brit
- britt
- brought
How songwriters use these rhymes
Plate in the first verse, ate in the second, and a song between them.
No family rhymes for plate. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
She gave the plate away, then watched it come back as ates.
What we called plate, the lyric heard as played.
Plate and at: the vowels are different but the consonants are kin.
Why plate rhymes the way it does
Pull plate apart phonetically and you get a one-syllable word with a long-a that lifts the line (/a/) as the rhyme-bearing vowel; the close lands on a closed syllable. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 190 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 202, assonance 5,497, and consonance 882. 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. 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. Plate 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 plate. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open plate in RhymeForge above.