Words that rhyme with Riddance
You can read riddance two ways: as a word that pushes the line forward, or as a two-syllable shape on a low-front /æ/ that lets the line dissolve into a fricative. It's restless — the line behind it tends to move. Pool data: strict matches don't survive the classifier, family rhymes give you a few singable slant options, and the vowel-only slant pool is deep enough to write a whole album from. Its function in a song, meanwhile, is to act as a concept word. The slant pool is huge enough that you'll never need to repeat a rhyme.
Open riddance in RhymeForge →Perfect rhymes (3 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- pittance
- admittance
- remittance
Family rhymes (2 shown)
Same vowel, with a single consonant swapped for one from the same articulatory family. Slant rhymes that pass the ear test.
- kittens
- mittens
Only 2 matches for riddance in this type — the slant columns below pick up the slack.
Additive & subtractive (25 shown)
Same core sound, with an extra consonant added (or one dropped) at the end.
- abyss
- amiss
- convince
- dismiss
- evince
- remiss
- bis
- bliss
- cris
- dis
- diss
- hiss
- kis
- kiss
- kris
- lis
- mince
- mis
- miss
- piss
- prince
- quince
- rinse
- since
- sis
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- fitness
- witness
- litmus
- bigness
- business
- clearance
- clearness
- grimness
- illness
- quickness
- richness
- sickness
- stiffness
- stillness
- thickness
- witnessed
- chickens
- citrus
- dickens
- fiddles
- givens
- gryphons
- isthmus
- kitchens
- linens
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- badness
- cadence
- credence
- goodness
- guidance
- madness
- prudence
- rudeness
- sadness
- shrewdness
- avoidance
- impedance
- imprudence
- subsidence
- audience
- cloudiness
- radiance
- rowdiness
- stridency
- sturdiness
- tiredness
- jurisprudence
- expedience
- obedience
- disobedience
How songwriters use these rhymes
Every time I write riddance, the next line wants pittance.
Riddance here, kittens there, the ear says they rhyme.
She gave the riddance away, then watched it come back as abyss.
Track the vowel from riddance to fitness and you have the chorus.
Riddance and badness: the vowels are different but the consonants are kin.
Why riddance rhymes the way it does
Pull riddance apart phonetically and you get a two-syllable word with the front-and-flat /æ/ (/æ/) as the rhyme-bearing vowel; the close lets the line dissolve into a fricative. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 3 matches, family rhymes 2, additive and subtractive together 32, assonance 13,555, and consonance 26. The mix gives you options across the board. Strict rhymes for the structural beats, family or assonance for the interior lines. Practical: skim the strict column first and pick the two or three matches you can sing without thinking. Then move to assonance for the in-between lines. Riddance reads as more memorable when the strict matches are reserved for the line endings that matter most.
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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 riddance. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open riddance in RhymeForge above.