Words that rhyme with Regards
As a two-syllable word, regards sits on the open /ษหr/ and spills into a fricative. It's an unremarkable word until the verse asks it to do something. Search rhymes for regards long enough and you notice the pattern: the picked top sets below tell most of the story: perfect matches come in a small handful, the family-rhyme list contributes ear-friendly slants, and the slant-vowel column carries the page on its own. Lyrically, the word arrives as a low-register anchor. Modern songwriting on this word is an assonance-first practice.
Open regards in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (23 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- retards
- discards
- cards
- hards
- shards
- yards
- backyards
- courtyards
- graveyards
- postcards
- safeguards
- shipyards
- bankcards
- blowhards
- diehards
- flashcards
- junkyards
- lifeguards
- scorecards
- stockyards
- boulevards
- datacards
- lumberyards
Family rhymes (21 shown)
Same vowel, with a single consonant swapped for one from the same articulatory family. Slant rhymes that pass the ear test.
- departs
- upstarts
- imparts
- arts
- carts
- charts
- darts
- harts
- hearts
- marts
- parts
- smarts
- tarts
- starts
- sweethearts
- flowcharts
- mouthparts
- outsmarts
- ramparts
- counterparts
- cuisinarts
Additive & subtractive (25 shown)
Same core sound, with an extra consonant added (or one dropped) at the end.
- regard
- belgard
- bombard
- canard
- disbarred
- discard
- gabbard
- bazaars
- cigars
- guitars
- card
- guard
- hard
- yard
- sitars
- ard
- bard
- barred
- charred
- jarred
- lard
- marred
- scarred
- shard
- sparred
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- alarms
- forearms
- responds
- absconds
- embarks
- remarks
- apart
- adopts
- alarm
- bizarre
- guitar
- respond
- alarmed
- discharged
- dissolves
- embarked
- evolves
- remarked
- resolves
- restart
- revolves
- adopt
- vermont
- arms
- barns
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 regards โ its final syllable carries the stress, so the columns above do the work.
Consonance (5 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- steroids
- weirdos
- beards
- periods
- parodies
How songwriters use these rhymes
Every time I write regards, the next line wants retards.
Between regards and departs the family rhyme does its quiet work.
It started as regards, ended as regard, same vowel either way.
Regards on the upbeat, alarms on the down โ the slant does the work.
No ending rhymes for regards โ its final syllable carries the stress, so the columns above do the work.
Regards and steroids share the closing shape, even when the vowels disagree.
Why regards rhymes the way it does
Pull regards apart phonetically and you get a two-syllable word with the /ษหr/ vowel (/ษหr/) as the rhyme-bearing vowel; the close tails through a fricative. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 23 matches, family rhymes 21, additive and subtractive together 176, assonance 7,344, and consonance 5. The mix gives you options across the board. Strict rhymes for the structural beats, family or assonance for the interior lines. 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 regards 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 regards. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open regards in RhymeForge above.