Words that rhyme with Today
Today: two-syllable, a clock word, vowel sitting on a long-a that lifts the line, ending that doesn't close on a consonant at all. It tells you when the song is happening. Songwriters reach for it as a time-marker. There's a deep bench of perfect rhymes here, nothing lands in the family-rhyme column, and the assonance options multiply into the thousands. Pull from the perfect column first; it has range you can use across a whole song.
Open today in RhymeForge →Perfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- allay
- array
- astray
- away
- ballet
- betray
- bouquet
- cafe
- callais
- cliche
- convey
- crochet
- croquet
- decay
- defray
- delay
- dismay
- display
- essay
- filet
- fillet
- hooray
- hurray
- manet
- moray
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 today. 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.
- abate
- abates
- ablaze
- abrade
- abrades
- abstain
- abstained
- acclaim
- acclaimed
- acclaims
- acquaint
- aflame
- afraid
- agape
- alane
- allayed
- allays
- amaze
- amazed
- apace
- appraise
- appraised
- arcade
- arcades
- arraign
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- agree
- albee
- allee
- banshee
- chablis
- curie
- debris
- decree
- degree
- esprit
- foresee
- lessee
- louie
- marquee
- rupee
- indri
- marquis
- payee
- trustee
- yippee
- abid
- able
- abled
- ables
- ablest
Consonance (0 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
No consonance matches for today in our dictionary — its closing consonant is rare in English.
How songwriters use these rhymes
She kept her today close, and her allay closer.
No family rhymes for today. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
She gave the today away, then watched it come back as abate.
What we called today, the lyric heard as agree.
No consonance matches for today — the closing consonant is rare in our dictionary.
Why today rhymes the way it does
Today is two-syllable, its rhyme-relevant vowel sitting on a long-a that lifts the line, then it ends on an open vowel. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 138 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 1175, assonance 3,626, 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. 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 today tends to read as dated; the contemporary ear forgives — and often prefers — 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 today. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open today in RhymeForge above.