Words that rhyme with Vote
Vote belongs to the one-syllable group; its vowel is the long /oส/, and it shuts cleanly on a stopped consonant. The lyric tradition treats it as a plain-speech anchor. The lyric earns it by placement, not by selection. Its job in a lyric is a household-word, holding down whatever line it lands in. Type rhymes for vote into any dictionary and the answer is roughly the same: the strict-rhyme well runs deep, nothing lands in the family-rhyme column, and the assonance well is bottomless. Hold the perfect column for the chorus; let the verses sample the slant columns.
Open vote in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- bloat
- boat
- coat
- cote
- dote
- float
- gloat
- goat
- groat
- haute
- hote
- moat
- mote
- note
- oat
- pote
- quote
- rote
- throat
- tote
- wrote
- blowed
- bode
- code
- crowed
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 vote. 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.
- bloats
- boats
- coats
- cotes
- floats
- gloats
- goats
- moats
- motes
- notes
- oats
- quotes
- throats
- totes
- votes
- beau
- beaux
- blow
- bo
- bro
- clow
- crow
- doe
- doh
- dough
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- bodes
- codes
- loads
- lodes
- modes
- nodes
- odes
- roads
- rodes
- toads
- bloke
- blokes
- blown
- blows
- boak
- boast
- boasts
- bold
- bolds
- bole
- boles
- boll
- bolls
- bolt
- bolts
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- at
- ate
- baht
- bait
- bat
- bate
- batt
- beat
- beet
- bet
- bight
- bit
- bite
- blatt
- blight
- blot
- blurt
- bott
- bought
- brat
- bright
- brit
- britt
- but
- butt
How songwriters use these rhymes
I keep on saying vote, and the night keeps saying bloat back.
No family rhymes for vote. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
It started as vote, ended as bloats, same vowel either way.
What we called vote, the lyric heard as bodes.
Inside the line, vote echoes at on consonant alone.
Why vote rhymes the way it does
The phonology of vote is a one-syllable core: the long /oส/ (/o/), then it closes on a hard stop. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 81 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 120, assonance 5,823, and consonance 869. 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. Vote 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 vote. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open vote in RhymeForge above.