Words that rhyme with Position
Sound and sense both matter for position. The sound: three-syllable, vowel on the front /ษ/, ending that lets the line ring through a nasal. The sense: a thinking-word. Pair it with something tactile and the line lifts. Two readings: as data โ perfect rhymes turn up in abundance, nothing lands in the family-rhyme column, the slant pool is enormous on the vowel side; as lyric โ a concept word. Stay in the perfect column for as long as it surprises you, then drift outward.
Open position in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- addition
- ambition
- audition
- commission
- condition
- edition
- permission
- petition
- tradition
- transition
- tuition
- admission
- emission
- fruition
- magician
- nutrition
- omission
- partition
- rendition
- sedition
- submission
- suspicion
- technician
- transmission
- decision
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 position. 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.
- musician
- opposition
- physician
- abortion
- adoption
- expansion
- production
- acquisition
- composition
- exposition
- action
- auction
- faction
- fraction
- function
- junction
- mansion
- option
- portion
- traction
- abduction
- absorption
- assumption
- attraction
- construction
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 position; I gave him the addition back.
No family rhymes for position. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
It started as position, ended as efficient, same vowel either way.
Position at the line's beginning, decisions at its end, same vowel humming through both.
Sing position, answer with musician: the endings lean on each other and hold.
Position and citation: the vowels are different but the consonants are kin.
Why position rhymes the way it does
In our engine, position registers as a three-syllable word on the centred /ษ/ (/ษ/) that trails through a nasal hum. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 105 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. Practical guidance: read the song aloud and listen for where a slant would tighten the line. Strict rhymes are the structural skeleton; the slant columns are where the personality of the lyric lives. With position, the slant work is doing more weight-bearing than it looks.
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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 position. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open position in RhymeForge above.