Words that rhyme with Voltaire
You can read voltaire two ways: as a plain-speech anchor, or as a two-syllable shape on the /ษหr/ that mid-Atlantic ears class as one vowel that trails through a flowing liquid. It's a word everyone uses โ which is what makes it powerful in a lyric. It serves as a word the lyric earns weight from by context in most lyrics. Songwriters asking for rhymes for voltaire run into the same map every time: there are essentially no strict perfect rhymes, no family rhymes survive the strict family test, and the assonance column dwarfs the others. Reach for assonance first; the strict list is the safety net underneath it.
Open voltaire in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (0 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
No strict perfect rhymes for voltaire in our dictionary. The slant columns below carry the load.
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 voltaire. 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.
- allay
- array
- astray
- away
- ba
- ballet
- betray
- bouquet
- cafe
- callais
- cliche
- convey
- crochet
- croquet
- decay
- defray
- delay
- dismay
- display
- dossier
- essay
- filet
- fillet
- hooray
- hurray
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- abate
- abates
- ablate
- ablaze
- abrade
- abrades
- abstain
- abstained
- acclaim
- acclaimed
- acclaims
- acquaint
- aflame
- afraid
- agape
- alane
- allayed
- allays
- amaze
- amazed
- apace
- appraise
- appraised
- arcade
- arcades
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- abhor
- adhere
- admire
- adore
- aerie
- aero
- afar
- affair
- afire
- airy
- ajar
- allure
- amir
- amour
- appear
- arrow
- ary
- ashore
- aspire
- assure
- aura
- austere
- aware
- barra
- barre
How songwriters use these rhymes
No strict perfect rhymes for voltaire in our dictionary. The slant columns below carry the load.
No family rhymes for voltaire. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
From voltaire to allay, a consonant arrives and the rhyme reshapes.
Voltaire on the upbeat, abate on the down โ the slant does the work.
Voltaire and abhor share the closing shape, even when the vowels disagree.
Why voltaire rhymes the way it does
Voltaire is built around the rhotic schwa (/ษหr/); it's two-syllable and ends on a liquid that pulls the line forward. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 0 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 144, assonance 4,820, and consonance 668. That's a narrow strict column with a very deep slant well beneath it. Modern songwriting reads those slants as rhymes; the ear has been trained on them for a century. In the room with a guitar: write toward the strict rhyme first, then go back through and replace the obvious ones with the assonance matches that earned their place. Voltaire is a word that benefits from the second pass.
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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.
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