Words that rhyme with Regard
For lyric work, regard behaves as an unguarded everyday word. Sound-wise: two-syllable, vowel on the broad /ษหr/, finally it lands on a liquid-into-stop cluster. Its everydayness lets the song surprise around it. Its job in a lyric is a quotidian anchor, holding down whatever line it lands in. Songwriters who arrive looking for what rhymes with regard find the same uneven map: perfect rhymes turn up in abundance, the family-rhyme bucket is bare, and the vowel-only slant column is the deepest of the five. Start strict, scan family, and only reach for assonance when the line wants slant.
Open regard in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- apart
- belgard
- bombard
- canard
- disbarred
- discard
- gabbard
- restart
- depart
- card
- hard
- yard
- ard
- bard
- barred
- charred
- jarred
- lard
- marred
- scarred
- shard
- sparred
- starred
- tarred
- art
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 regard. 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.
- regards
- retards
- bizarre
- guitar
- discards
- afar
- bazaar
- cigar
- ajar
- bazar
- boyar
- dinar
- navar
- sitar
- soutar
- subpar
- cards
- guards
- hards
- shards
- yards
- bourgeois
- facade
- hurrah
- pasha
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- alarm
- respond
- bazaars
- beyond
- cigars
- embark
- forearm
- guitars
- recharge
- remark
- adopt
- vermont
- alarmed
- alarms
- discharged
- embarked
- embarks
- forearms
- remarked
- remarks
- responds
- abscond
- barraged
- becalmed
- demarche
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 regard 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
All the words I learned for regard came back as apart.
No family rhymes for regard. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
From regard to regards, a consonant arrives and the rhyme reshapes.
The vowel between regard and alarm carries the rhyme โ the consonants step aside.
No ending rhymes for regard โ its final syllable carries the stress, so the columns above do the work.
The regard at the start of the line, the assured tucked inside it, same consonant frame.
Why regard rhymes the way it does
Pull regard apart phonetically and you get a two-syllable word with the open /ษหr/ (/ษหr/) as the rhyme-bearing vowel; the close lands on a liquid-into-stop cluster. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 80 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 193, assonance 6,933, and consonance 134. 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. Writing-tip: don't end every line with the strict rhyme. Use the slant columns at the joints and the strict matches at the seams. Regard works hardest when the slant carries the verse and the strict match closes the chorus.
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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 regard. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open regard in RhymeForge above.