Words that rhyme with Quotation
Quotation: three-syllable, a non-image word, vowel sitting on the short /ษ/, ending that lets the nasal carry the tail. It's a concept-word that wants a concrete rhyme to ground it. What the engine returns: there's plenty in the strict column, no family-rhyme matches turn up, and the assonance pool runs into the thousands. Lyric-wise, the word reads as a concept-anchor. Use the strict rhymes for the structural beats and let slant rhymes do the interior work.
Open quotation in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- carnation
- conflation
- creation
- cremation
- crustacean
- dalmatian
- damnation
- deflation
- dictation
- donation
- elation
- filtration
- fixation
- formation
- foundation
- frustration
- gestation
- gradation
- gyration
- hydration
- lactation
- ligation
- location
- migration
- narration
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 quotation. 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.
- carnations
- citations
- creations
- crustaceans
- dalmatians
- donations
- flirtations
- formations
- foundations
- frustrations
- gradations
- gyrations
- locations
- migrations
- mutations
- notations
- orations
- ovations
- privations
- quotations
- relations
- rotations
- sensations
- summations
- temptations
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- abrasions
- audacious
- awaken
- biracial
- capacious
- ceraceous
- contagion
- crustaceous
- emblazon
- equations
- evasions
- fallacious
- flirtatious
- foramen
- forsaken
- gravamen
- herbaceous
- loquacious
- mendacious
- menhaden
- misshapen
- mistaken
- nonracial
- occasioned
- occasions
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- ablution
- accession
- addition
- admission
- aggression
- ambition
- assertion
- attrition
- audition
- clinician
- coercion
- cognition
- commission
- commotion
- compassion
- compression
- concession
- concussion
- condition
- confession
- contrition
- demotion
- dentition
- depression
- desertion
How songwriters use these rhymes
There's the word for quotation, and the older word for carnation, and the song between them.
No family rhymes for quotation. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
From quotation to carnations, a consonant arrives and the rhyme reshapes.
What we called quotation, the lyric heard as abrasions.
Quotation and ablution: the vowels are different but the consonants are kin.
Why quotation rhymes the way it does
Quotation is built around the front /ษ/ (/ษ/); it's three-syllable and hums to a nasal close. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 716 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 556, assonance 4,765, and consonance 208. 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. In practice: start at the top of the perfect column, scan family next, and reach for the assonance pool when the strict matches feel worn. A lyric that uses only strict rhymes for quotation tends to read as dated; the contemporary ear forgives โ and often prefers โ the slant.
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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 quotation. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open quotation in RhymeForge above.