Words that rhyme with Show
Show, a one-syllable noise-word, lands its weight on the round /oส/ and doesn't really close at all. It's a word about the medium the verse is travelling through. From the rhyme-data side: the perfect-rhyme column has enough to live in, the family-rhyme bucket is bare, and the vowel-only slant pool is deep enough to write a whole album from. From the lyric side, it works as a sound word. The perfect-rhyme list below is generous; lean on it before sliding into slant.
Open show in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- blow
- bro
- crow
- doe
- dough
- flow
- glow
- grow
- know
- low
- owe
- row
- slow
- snow
- tho
- though
- throw
- toe
- whoa
- beau
- eau
- foe
- fro
- go
- hoe
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 show. 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.
- blown
- boat
- bold
- bolt
- bone
- bowl
- broke
- chose
- close
- coach
- coal
- coast
- coat
- code
- coke
- cold
- cone
- cope
- dome
- dope
- dose
- drone
- drove
- float
- flown
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- blew
- blue
- boo
- bow
- clue
- coup
- cow
- crew
- cue
- dew
- draw
- drew
- due
- flew
- flu
- glue
- grew
- how
- hue
- jaw
- jew
- knew
- law
- new
- now
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 show โ its final syllable carries the stress, so the columns above do the work.
Consonance (0 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
No consonance matches for show in our dictionary โ its closing consonant is rare in English.
How songwriters use these rhymes
I keep on saying show, and the night keeps saying blow back.
No family rhymes for show. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
Show alone, blown in the chorus โ the song builds the consonant in.
Track the vowel from show to blew and you have the chorus.
No ending rhymes for show โ its final syllable carries the stress, so the columns above do the work.
No consonance matches for show โ the closing consonant is rare in our dictionary.
Why show rhymes the way it does
Show is built around a back-of-the-mouth /oส/ (/oส/); it's one-syllable and tails off through an approximant. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 265 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 1225, assonance 1,936, and consonance 0. 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. How to use it: hold the strict matches for the moments the listener expects, and use the slants to surprise where they don't. Show pairs especially well with assonance because the vowel column is deeper than the consonant column.
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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 show. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open show in RhymeForge above.