Words that rhyme with Told
For lyric work, told behaves as a word that turns toward the past. Sound-wise: one-syllable, vowel on the short /ษ/, finally it closes on a hard stop. The line containing it usually means 'once'. This one travels in song as an unguarded everyday word. Rhymes for told have a particular footprint: perfect rhymes are common for this one, family rhymes come up empty, 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 told in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- bold
- bowled
- cold
- doled
- fold
- gold
- hold
- holed
- mold
- mould
- old
- olde
- polled
- rolled
- scold
- sold
- strolled
- wold
- bolt
- colt
- holt
- jolt
- molt
- volt
- ahold
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 told. 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.
- bolds
- colds
- folds
- golds
- holds
- molds
- moulds
- olds
- scolds
- bole
- boll
- bowl
- coal
- cole
- dhole
- dole
- droll
- foal
- goal
- hole
- knoll
- kohl
- mole
- nole
- noll
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- boles
- bolls
- bolts
- boned
- bowls
- cloned
- closed
- clothed
- coals
- coles
- colts
- combed
- doles
- domed
- dozed
- droned
- goals
- groaned
- holes
- holts
- homed
- honed
- hosed
- joles
- jolts
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- bailed
- billed
- boiled
- broiled
- build
- celled
- child
- childe
- chilled
- coiled
- culled
- curled
- dolled
- drilled
- dulled
- dwelled
- failed
- felled
- field
- filed
- filled
- fjeld
- foiled
- gild
- grilled
How songwriters use these rhymes
She kept her told close, and her bold closer.
No family rhymes for told. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
It started as told, ended as bolds, same vowel either way.
What we called told, the lyric heard as boles.
The told at the start of the line, the bailed tucked inside it, same consonant frame.
Why told rhymes the way it does
Told is one-syllable, its rhyme-relevant vowel sitting on the short /ษ/, then it lands on a stopped consonant. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 51 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 202, assonance 6,619, and consonance 235. 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 told 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 told. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open told in RhymeForge above.