Words that rhyme with Record
Record works as a word everyone uses on the lyric side and two-syllable the back /ษหr/ on the sound side โ it lands on a liquid-into-stop cluster at the close. Its everydayness lets the song surprise around it. The assonance count climbs into the thousands, no near-perfect family slants exist for this one, and strict rhymes are abundant. Search for what rhymes with record and the engine returns a recognisable shape: the pull is toward slant work. Take the strict matches first; they have more range than the count suggests.
Open record in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- aboard
- afford
- award
- explored
- toward
- escort
- support
- transport
- abhorred
- adored
- deplored
- outscored
- reboard
- restored
- reward
- abort
- deport
- distort
- assort
- athwart
- cavort
- comport
- consort
- contort
- exhort
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 record. 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.
- towards
- accords
- affords
- awards
- records
- before
- explore
- restore
- rewards
- adore
- ashore
- decor
- galore
- rapport
- abroad
- withdraw
- abhor
- deplore
- livor
- outscore
- prewar
- wherefore
- ignore
- boards
- chords
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- absorb
- divorce
- enforce
- perform
- reform
- absorbed
- endorsed
- enforced
- performed
- aborts
- adores
- adorn
- belonged
- distorts
- endorse
- explores
- remorse
- restores
- retorts
- supports
- transform
- transports
- assault
- exhaust
- absorbs
Ending rhymes (0 shown)
A shared unstressed final syllable โ the window/shadow slant. Weaker than a perfect rhyme, completely idiomatic in song.
No ending rhymes for record โ its final syllable carries the stress, so the columns above do the work.
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- assured
- declared
- expired
- secured
- cashiered
- despaired
- premiered
- repaired
- adhered
- allured
- appeared
- aspired
- attired
- cohered
- compared
- endeared
- endured
- ensnared
- ensured
- matured
- obscured
- prepared
- procured
- retired
- revered
How songwriters use these rhymes
I keep on saying record, and the night keeps saying aboard back.
No family rhymes for record. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
She gave the record away, then watched it come back as towards.
What we called record, the lyric heard as absorb.
No ending rhymes for record โ its final syllable carries the stress, so the columns above do the work.
Record and assured share the closing shape, even when the vowels disagree.
Why record rhymes the way it does
The phonology of record is a two-syllable core: the /ษหr/ vowel (/ษหr/), then it closes on a liquid feeding into a stop. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 138 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 227, assonance 7,023, and consonance 135. 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 record 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 record. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open record in RhymeForge above.