Words that rhyme with Voodoo
In phonetic terms, voodoo is a two-syllable anchor on a closing /uห/, which doesn't close on a consonant at all. It's an unremarkable word until the verse asks it to do something. This one travels in song as a plain-speech anchor. Look up rhymes for voodoo and you'll get a particular story: the perfect column comes up empty, the family column is blank, and the vowel-only slant pool is deep enough to write a whole album from. The slant pool is huge enough that you'll never need to repeat a rhyme.
Open voodoo in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (2 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- tutu
- ubuntu
Only 2 matches for voodoo in this type โ the slant columns below pick up the slack.
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 voodoo. 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.
- accrue
- achoo
- adieu
- ado
- anew
- askew
- babu
- bamboo
- beaucoup
- canoe
- construe
- debut
- ensue
- eschew
- fondue
- imbue
- kazoo
- outdo
- outgrew
- perdue
- peru
- pursue
- ragu
- ratu
- redo
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- foolproof
- guru
- gurus
- hoopoe
- jujube
- lulu
- newsgroup
- newsgroups
- newsroom
- newsrooms
- schoolroom
- toolroom
- zulu
- cuckoos
- juju
- tubule
- zulus
- coed
- boudoir
- doodad
- doodads
- foodstuff
- foodstuffs
- foodways
- lodestone
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- judo
- ludo
- udo
- dado
- diode
- meadow
- claddagh
- dada
- dyad
- heyday
- jedi
- payday
- speedy
- thirty
- triad
- wadi
- pseudo
- boody
- broody
- buddha
- buoyed
- doody
- druid
- fluid
- foodie
How songwriters use these rhymes
The line ends on voodoo; the next one starts on tutu.
No family rhymes for voodoo. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
It started as voodoo, ended as accrue, same vowel either way.
The vowel between voodoo and foolproof carries the rhyme โ the consonants step aside.
Inside the line, voodoo echoes judo on consonant alone.
Why voodoo rhymes the way it does
Voodoo sits on a closing /uห/, transcribed /uห/ in our engine, and ends on an open vowel. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 2 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 137, assonance 3,576, and consonance 843. 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. Voodoo 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.
This page is a static snapshot of the rhymes for voodoo. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open voodoo in RhymeForge above.