Words that rhyme with Television
Television: four-syllable, a word that lives in the head before the senses, vowel sitting on the front /ษ/, ending that trails through a nasal hum. Songs that use it well also reach for something physical nearby. Run rhymes for television through any half-decent engine and you get this shape: there's no shortage of perfect matches, no family rhymes survive the strict family test, while the assonance column dwarfs the others. Its lyric role is an idea-word. Begin with the perfect list โ it carries plenty before the slant columns are needed.
Open television in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- decision
- definition
- opposition
- collision
- envision
- incision
- precision
- circumcision
- indecision
- addition
- ambition
- audition
- commission
- condition
- edition
- musician
- permission
- petition
- position
- tradition
- transition
- tuition
- abolition
- acquisition
- ammunition
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 television. 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.
- decisions
- collisions
- divisions
- envisioned
- envisions
- incisions
- provisions
- revisions
- televisions
- recisions
- rescissions
- visions
- subdivisions
- violin
- bin
- chin
- grin
- inn
- kin
- pin
- sin
- skin
- spin
- thin
- tin
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- efficient
- religion
- acquisitions
- ammunitions
- coalitions
- competitions
- compositions
- definitions
- exhibitions
- expeditions
- expositions
- oppositions
- politicians
- repetitions
- appearance
- inherent
- additions
- admissions
- ambitions
- arisen
- auditioned
- auditions
- commissioned
- commissions
- conditioned
Ending rhymes (25 shown)
A shared unstressed final syllable โ the window/shadow slant. Weaker than a perfect rhyme, completely idiomatic in song.
- vision
- division
- revision
- anyone
- everyone
- provision
- subdivision
- supervision
- aviation
- education
- generation
- napoleon
- operation
- population
- republican
- reputation
- revolution
- situation
- decimation
- destitution
- gentlewoman
- impregnation
- infestation
- weatherperson
- action
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- equation
- illusion
- invasion
- occasion
- abrasion
- allusion
- aversion
- collusion
- conclusion
- corrosion
- delusion
- diffusion
- diversion
- erosion
- evasion
- exclusion
- explosion
- immersion
- inclusion
- intrusion
- disillusion
- fusion
- version
- aspersion
- confusion
How songwriters use these rhymes
There's the word for television, and the older word for decision, and the song between them.
No family rhymes for television. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
She gave the television away, then watched it come back as decisions.
Television on the upbeat, efficient on the down โ the slant does the work.
Sing television, answer with vision: the endings lean on each other and hold.
Television and equation: the vowels are different but the consonants are kin.
Why television rhymes the way it does
The phonology of television is a four-syllable core: the mid /ษ/ (/ษ/), then it hums to a nasal close. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 118 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 73, assonance 10,538, and consonance 45. 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. 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. Television 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 television. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open television in RhymeForge above.