Words that rhyme with Today
From a sound-design view, today is a now/then word on a long-a that lifts the line, two-syllable, and it ends on an unbuttoned vowel. Time-words like this organise the verse's chronology. Sketch the rhyme pool and you get you won't run short of perfect rhymes, the family-rhyme classifier finds nothing, and the slant pool, matched on vowel alone, is huge. Sketch the lyric role and you get a word that organises the verse on a clock. Begin with the perfect list โ it carries plenty before the slant columns are needed.
Open today in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- array
- away
- ballet
- cafe
- convey
- decay
- delay
- essay
- obey
- survey
- astray
- betray
- bouquet
- cliche
- crochet
- dismay
- fillet
- hooray
- moray
- palais
- portray
- valet
- allay
- callais
- croquet
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.
- afraid
- amazed
- arrange
- ashamed
- awake
- became
- behave
- brigade
- campaign
- cocaine
- complain
- contain
- debate
- decade
- disdain
- domain
- embrace
- engage
- engaged
- engrave
- escape
- estate
- exchange
- explain
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- agree
- debris
- decree
- degree
- curie
- foresee
- marquee
- rupee
- albee
- allee
- banshee
- chablis
- esprit
- lessee
- louie
- able
- acre
- agent
- aging
- ancient
- angel
- baby
- bacon
- basement
- basic
Ending rhymes (0 shown)
A shared unstressed final syllable โ the window/shadow slant. Weaker than a perfect rhyme, completely idiomatic in song.
No ending rhymes for today โ its final syllable carries the stress, so the columns above do the work.
Consonance (0 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
No consonance matches for today in our dictionary โ its closing consonant is rare in English.
How songwriters use these rhymes
All the words I learned for today came back as array.
No family rhymes for today. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
Today alone, afraid in the chorus โ the song builds the consonant in.
Today on the upbeat, agree on the down โ the slant does the work.
No ending rhymes for today โ its final syllable carries the stress, so the columns above do the work.
No consonance matches for today โ the closing consonant is rare in our dictionary.
Why today rhymes the way it does
In our engine, today registers as a two-syllable word on the long /eษช/ (/eษช/) that doesn't close on a consonant at all. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 257 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 2172, assonance 4,359, 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. How to use it: hold the strict matches for the moments the listener expects, and use the slants to surprise where they don't. Today pairs especially well with assonance because the vowel column is deeper than the consonant column.
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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.