Words that rhyme with Tar
In phonetic terms, tar is a one-syllable anchor on the open /ษหr/, which trails through a flowing liquid. Its everydayness lets the song surprise around it. The slant pool, matched on vowel alone, is huge, no family-rhyme matches turn up, and there are a few perfect rhymes, no more. Search rhymes for tar long enough and you notice the pattern: the pull is toward slant work. Use the assonance pool freely; the ear treats most of those matches as rhymes.
Open tar in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- ar
- are
- bar
- car
- carr
- char
- czar
- far
- gar
- haar
- jar
- lar
- mar
- par
- parr
- sar
- scar
- spar
- star
- starr
- thar
- tsar
- afar
- ajar
- bazaar
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 tar. 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.
- aargh
- arb
- arbs
- arc
- arch
- arched
- arcs
- ard
- ares
- argh
- ark
- arm
- armed
- arms
- arse
- art
- arts
- barb
- barbe
- barbed
- barbs
- bard
- barf
- barge
- barged
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- ahs
- alms
- alt
- angst
- baas
- bach
- baht
- balm
- balms
- blob
- blobs
- bloc
- block
- blocked
- blocks
- blocs
- blond
- blonde
- blondes
- blonds
- blot
- blotch
- blotched
- blots
- bob
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- air
- ayre
- bare
- bear
- beare
- beer
- bere
- bier
- blare
- boor
- buhr
- care
- chair
- cheer
- cher
- clear
- cour
- cure
- dare
- dear
- deer
- deere
- dire
- doer
- dower
How songwriters use these rhymes
Every time I write tar, the next line wants ar.
No family rhymes for tar. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
It started as tar, ended as aargh, same vowel either way.
Tar at the line's beginning, ahs at its end, same vowel humming through both.
The tar at the start of the line, the air tucked inside it, same consonant frame.
Why tar rhymes the way it does
To understand why tar rhymes the way it does, start with the vowel โ the broad /ษหr/, written /ษหr/ โ and the ending, which spills out through a liquid consonant. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 36 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 296, assonance 6,948, and consonance 500. 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. Writing-tip: don't end every line with the strict rhyme. Use the slant columns at the joints and the strict matches at the seams. Tar works hardest when the slant carries the verse and the strict match closes the chorus.
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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 tar. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open tar in RhymeForge above.