Words that rhyme with Update
Singers reaching for update find a word everyone uses on the surface and a two-syllable core on a long-a that lifts the line underneath โ one that lands on a stopped consonant. It's a word everyone uses โ which is what makes it powerful in a lyric. Its job in a lyric is a workaday word, holding down whatever line it lands in. What rhymes with update? The honest answer: the perfect-rhyme pool is generous, the family-rhyme bucket is bare, and the vowel-only slant column is the deepest of the five. The strict list gives you a chorus' worth of options before you ever need a slant.
Open update in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- abate
- await
- belate
- berate
- collate
- conflate
- create
- debate
- deflate
- dictate
- elate
- equate
- estate
- inflate
- irate
- misstate
- negate
- oblate
- ornate
- predate
- reflate
- relate
- restate
- sedate
- translate
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 update. 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.
- abates
- awaits
- conflates
- creates
- debates
- dictates
- elates
- equates
- estates
- misstates
- narrates
- negates
- relates
- restates
- sedates
- translates
- updates
- allay
- array
- astray
- away
- ballet
- betray
- bouquet
- cafe
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- abrades
- arcades
- brigades
- brocades
- cascades
- charades
- crusades
- decades
- degrades
- evades
- grenades
- parades
- persuades
- pervades
- tirades
- upgrades
- ablaze
- abstain
- abstained
- acclaim
- acclaimed
- acclaims
- acquaint
- aflame
- agape
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- abet
- about
- abut
- acquit
- acute
- admit
- adroit
- afloat
- afoot
- alert
- alight
- allot
- assert
- astute
- avert
- barbette
- barrette
- befit
- begat
- beget
- begot
- benight
- beset
- brunet
- brunette
How songwriters use these rhymes
You said update, I heard abate, neither of us was wrong.
No family rhymes for update. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
Update alone, abates in the chorus โ the song builds the consonant in.
Update at the line's beginning, abrades at its end, same vowel humming through both.
Inside the line, update echoes abet on consonant alone.
Why update rhymes the way it does
Update is two-syllable, its rhyme-relevant vowel sitting on a front-of-the-mouth /eษช/, then it snaps shut on a stop. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 195 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 202, assonance 5,493, and consonance 882. 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. The songwriter's move is to pick a small set of strict rhymes for the chorus and open up to family and assonance through the verses. Update rewards slant rhyming because the strict pool, when over-used, calls attention to itself.
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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 update. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open update in RhymeForge above.