Words that rhyme with Scrape
Sound and sense both matter for scrape. The sound: one-syllable, vowel on a front-of-the-mouth /eษช/, ending that ends with a clean stop. The sense: a word the lyric earns weight from by context. The lyric earns it by placement, not by selection. This one travels in song as a word the lyric earns weight from by context. Search rhymes for scrape long enough and you notice the pattern: strict matches show up in low numbers, the family-rhyme classifier finds nothing, and the assonance pool has more matches than any verse will use. The slant-by-vowel column will carry you a long way past the strict matches.
Open scrape in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (17 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- ape
- cape
- crepe
- drape
- gape
- grape
- pape
- rape
- scape
- shape
- tape
- babe
- mabe
- agape
- escape
- reshape
- videotape
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 scrape. 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.
- apes
- caped
- capes
- crepes
- draped
- drapes
- grapes
- raped
- rapes
- scraped
- scrapes
- shaped
- shapes
- taped
- tapes
- traipse
- a
- ae
- ay
- bay
- baye
- bey
- blay
- bley
- brae
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- babes
- ace
- aced
- ache
- ached
- aches
- age
- aged
- aid
- aide
- aides
- aids
- ail
- ails
- aim
- aimed
- aims
- aine
- ake
- ale
- ales
- ame
- ames
- ane
- ate
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- app
- blip
- bop
- burp
- cap
- cep
- chap
- chip
- chirp
- chop
- clap
- clip
- coop
- cop
- cope
- coupe
- crap
- cripe
- crop
- croup
- cup
- dip
- dope
- drip
- droop
How songwriters use these rhymes
There's the word for scrape, and the older word for ape, and the song between them.
No family rhymes for scrape. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
She gave the scrape away, then watched it come back as apes.
The vowel between scrape and babes carries the rhyme โ the consonants step aside.
Scrape and app: the vowels are different but the consonants are kin.
Why scrape rhymes the way it does
The rhyme map for scrape starts at the vowel โ a long-a that lifts the line, IPA /a/ โ and ends where the line lands on a stopped consonant. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 17 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 165, assonance 4,917, and consonance 332. The empty family column matters less than it looks. Family rhymes are a strict-classifier construct; the songwriter's ear accepts most assonance matches in their place. In the room with a guitar: write toward the strict rhyme first, then go back through and replace the obvious ones with the assonance matches that earned their place. Scrape is a word that benefits from the second pass.
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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 scrape. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open scrape in RhymeForge above.