Words that rhyme with Thou
You can read thou two ways: as a word everyone uses, or as a one-syllable shape on the wide /aส/ that leaves the vowel hanging open. Its everydayness lets the song surprise around it. Its job in a lyric is a workaday word, holding down whatever line it lands in. Run rhymes for thou through any half-decent engine and you get this shape: the perfect pool is workable but compact, family rhymes come up empty, and the assonance pool is modest but usable. Move down the five sections to find the type that fits the line you're writing.
Open thou in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- aue
- bough
- bow
- brough
- brow
- chao
- chow
- ciao
- clough
- cow
- dow
- frau
- hao
- how
- howe
- lough
- now
- plough
- plow
- pow
- prow
- pshaw
- scow
- shough
- sow
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 thou. 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.
- blouse
- bouche
- boughs
- bounce
- bounced
- bound
- bounds
- bouse
- bout
- bouts
- bowed
- bows
- bowsed
- browed
- brown
- browned
- browns
- brows
- browse
- browsed
- chows
- cloud
- clouds
- clout
- clown
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- aw
- beau
- beaux
- blow
- bo
- bro
- caw
- chaw
- claw
- clow
- craw
- crow
- daw
- doe
- doh
- dough
- draw
- eau
- eaux
- faw
- flaw
- floe
- flow
- foe
- fro
Consonance (0 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
No consonance matches for thou in our dictionary โ its closing consonant is rare in English.
How songwriters use these rhymes
Thou in the first verse, aue in the second, and a song between them.
No family rhymes for thou. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
From thou to blouse, a consonant arrives and the rhyme reshapes.
What we called thou, the lyric heard as aw.
No consonance matches for thou โ the closing consonant is rare in our dictionary.
Why thou rhymes the way it does
Thou is built around the /aส/ diphthong (/aส/); it's one-syllable and ends on an open vowel. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 37 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 276, assonance 903, and consonance 0. The empty consonance column tells you something โ the closing consonant of this word is rare enough that nothing else in English shares it cleanly. Slant work has to come from the vowel side instead. In practice: start at the top of the perfect column, scan family next, and reach for the assonance pool when the strict matches feel worn. A lyric that uses only strict rhymes for thou tends to read as dated; the contemporary ear forgives โ and often prefers โ the slant.
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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 thou. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open thou in RhymeForge above.