Words that rhyme with Retake
On the page, retake is a plain-speech anchor; on the ear it's a two-syllable word on a front-of-the-mouth /eษช/ that shuts cleanly on a stopped consonant. Plain-speech words like this earn weight through context. Engine returns: strict rhymes arrive in number here, the family-rhyme bucket is bare, the assonance count climbs into the thousands. Lyric returns: a common-tongue word. Hold the perfect column for the chorus; let the verses sample the slant columns.
Open retake in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- awake
- forsake
- mistake
- ache
- bake
- brake
- break
- cake
- drake
- fake
- jake
- lake
- make
- sake
- shake
- snake
- stake
- steak
- wake
- opaque
- partake
- flake
- quake
- rake
- plague
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 retake. 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.
- baked
- mistakes
- array
- away
- ballet
- cafe
- convey
- decay
- delay
- essay
- obey
- okay
- survey
- today
- aches
- bakes
- brakes
- breaks
- cakes
- drakes
- fakes
- flakes
- jakes
- lakes
- makes
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- afraid
- amazed
- arrange
- ashamed
- became
- behave
- brigade
- campaign
- cocaine
- complain
- contain
- debate
- decade
- disdain
- domain
- embrace
- engage
- engaged
- engrave
- escape
- estate
- exchange
- explain
- explained
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 retake 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.
- acre
- alike
- attack
- broker
- cookie
- dislike
- echo
- hockey
- liquor
- locker
- lucky
- maker
- poker
- rookie
- soccer
- sticky
- striker
- tricky
- unlock
- worker
- back
- bike
- black
- block
- book
How songwriters use these rhymes
All the words I learned for retake came back as awake.
No family rhymes for retake. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
Retake alone, baked in the chorus โ the song builds the consonant in.
Track the vowel from retake to afraid and you have the chorus.
No ending rhymes for retake โ its final syllable carries the stress, so the columns above do the work.
Retake and acre share the closing shape, even when the vowels disagree.
Why retake rhymes the way it does
The phonology of retake is a two-syllable core: the long /eษช/ (/a/), then it closes on a hard stop. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 65 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 318, assonance 6,334, and consonance 916. 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. The songwriter's move is to pick a small set of strict rhymes for the chorus and open up to family and assonance through the verses. Retake rewards slant rhyming because the strict pool, when over-used, calls attention to itself.
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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 retake. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open retake in RhymeForge above.