Words that rhyme with Remorse
Remorse reads as a stop-by-stop-grocery-shelf word on the page; phonetically it's two-syllable, anchored on the back /ษหr/, ending where it softens into a fricative tail. It's a word everyone uses โ which is what makes it powerful in a lyric. Pool data: perfect rhymes are common for this one, family-rhyme territory comes up dry, and the slant-vowel column carries the page on its own. Its function in a song, meanwhile, is to act as a household-word. Lean on the strict column for the hooks; the slants can colour the verses.
Open remorse in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- divorce
- endorse
- enforce
- perforce
- abhors
- adores
- deplores
- explores
- outscores
- restores
- outsource
- bourse
- coarse
- corse
- course
- force
- hoarse
- horse
- source
- reinforce
- ignores
- implores
- outpours
- bores
- bors
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 remorse. 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.
- divorced
- endorsed
- enforced
- unhorsed
- abhor
- adore
- ashore
- before
- decor
- deplore
- explore
- galore
- livor
- outscore
- prewar
- rapport
- restore
- wherefore
- outsourced
- forced
- horsed
- horst
- across
- bashaw
- emboss
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- abhorred
- aboard
- abort
- absorb
- accord
- adored
- adorn
- afford
- assort
- athwart
- award
- cavort
- comport
- conform
- consort
- contort
- deplored
- deport
- disgorge
- distort
- escort
- exhort
- explored
- extort
- flummox
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- arris
- chorus
- cirrus
- coarser
- corso
- courser
- daresay
- doris
- dorsa
- duress
- eros
- ferrous
- fiercer
- garis
- goris
- hearsay
- heiress
- horsey
- iris
- loris
- marris
- meris
- morris
- orris
- paris
How songwriters use these rhymes
Every time I write remorse, the next line wants divorce.
No family rhymes for remorse. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
Remorse alone, divorced in the chorus โ the song builds the consonant in.
Remorse on the upbeat, abhorred on the down โ the slant does the work.
Remorse and arris: the vowels are different but the consonants are kin.
Why remorse rhymes the way it does
Pull remorse apart phonetically and you get a two-syllable word with the rounded /ษหr/ (/ษหr/) as the rhyme-bearing vowel; the close ends in a hissed consonant. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 51 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 140, assonance 7,912, and consonance 90. 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. Remorse 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 remorse. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open remorse in RhymeForge above.