Words that rhyme with Showtime
A two-syllable word that reads as a household-word, showtime sits on the gliding /aɪ/ and lets the line ring through a nasal. Its everydayness lets the song surprise around it. The perfect column gives you just enough to start, family rhymes round out the strict column, while the assonance pool runs into the thousands. If you typed what rhymes with showtime to land here, the breakdown is this: the deeper map matters more than the headline count. Slide from the strict column into the family column when the chorus needs a refresh.
Open showtime in RhymeForge →Perfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- climb
- crime
- lime
- prime
- sublime
- enzyme
- lifetime
- meantime
- sometime
- chime
- dime
- grime
- lyme
- mime
- rhyme
- slime
- thyme
- airtime
- bedtime
- downtime
- halftime
- longtime
- pastime
- wartime
- rime
Family rhymes (25 shown)
Same vowel, with a single consonant swapped for one from the same articulatory family. Slant rhymes that pass the ear test.
- decline
- define
- design
- divine
- fine
- line
- mine
- pine
- shine
- sign
- spine
- wine
- align
- assign
- benign
- confine
- incline
- refine
- airline
- deadline
- headline
- online
- outline
- pipeline
- sunshine
Additive & subtractive (25 shown)
Same core sound, with an extra consonant added (or one dropped) at the end.
- climbed
- sometimes
- apply
- comply
- deny
- goodbye
- imply
- mumbai
- rely
- supply
- chimes
- climbs
- crimes
- dimes
- grimes
- limes
- primes
- rhymes
- times
- daytimes
- enzymes
- halftimes
- lifetimes
- pastimes
- wartimes
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- aligned
- assigned
- behind
- combined
- confined
- defined
- designed
- refined
- resigned
- admire
- advice
- advise
- advised
- alike
- alive
- allied
- alright
- arise
- arrive
- aside
- awhile
- denied
- dislike
- divide
- expired
Ending rhymes (9 shown)
A shared unstressed final syllable — the window/shadow slant. Weaker than a perfect rhyme, completely idiomatic in song.
- overtime
- anytime
- maritime
- daytime
- bigtime
- dinnertime
- summertime
- wintertime
- coenzyme
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- assume
- became
- become
- bomber
- confirm
- consume
- costume
- demo
- drama
- esteem
- exam
- extreme
- grammar
- hammer
- homer
- humor
- mommy
- palmer
- perfume
- poem
- regime
- resume
- semi
- summer
- supreme
How songwriters use these rhymes
The line ends on showtime; the next one starts on climb.
Hold the showtime, then let it tilt into decline.
From showtime to climbed, a consonant arrives and the rhyme reshapes.
The vowel between showtime and aligned carries the rhyme — the consonants step aside.
The stress lands early in showtime and overtime; the soft tails rhyme on the way out.
Showtime and assume: the vowels are different but the consonants are kin.
Why showtime rhymes the way it does
The phonology of showtime is a two-syllable core: the open /aɪ/ diphthong (/i/), then it hums to a nasal close. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 41 matches, family rhymes 141, additive and subtractive together 222, assonance 4,015, and consonance 635. 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. Showtime 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 showtime. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open showtime in RhymeForge above.