Words that rhyme with Withhold
On the page, withhold is a stop-by-stop-grocery-shelf word; on the ear it's a two-syllable word on the short /ษ/ that lands on a closed syllable. It's an unremarkable word until the verse asks it to do something. It serves as a workaday word in most lyrics. If you're searching for rhymes for withhold, the shape of the pool is unusual: you won't run short of perfect rhymes, nothing lands in the family-rhyme column, and the vowel-only slant pool is deep enough to write a whole album from. Use the strict rhymes for the structural beats and let slant rhymes do the interior work.
Open withhold in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- ahold
- behold
- cajoled
- consoled
- controlled
- enfold
- enrolled
- extolled
- foretold
- outsold
- paroled
- patrolled
- remold
- resold
- unfold
- unsold
- untold
- uphold
- revolt
- fourfold
- unrolled
- bold
- bowled
- cold
- doled
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 withhold. 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.
- aholds
- unfolds
- upholds
- cajole
- control
- enroll
- extol
- parole
- patrol
- pistole
- bolds
- colds
- folds
- golds
- holds
- molds
- moulds
- olds
- scolds
- abode
- aglow
- ago
- below
- bestow
- bestowed
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- bemoaned
- composed
- condoned
- consoles
- controls
- creoles
- deposed
- dethroned
- disclosed
- disowned
- disposed
- eloped
- enclosed
- enrolls
- exposed
- extols
- foreclosed
- opposed
- paroles
- patrols
- postponed
- proposed
- revolts
- supposed
- transposed
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- afield
- appealed
- assailed
- availed
- beguiled
- beheld
- compelled
- compiled
- concealed
- congealed
- corralled
- curtailed
- derailed
- detailed
- dispelled
- distilled
- emailed
- embroiled
- entailed
- excelled
- exhaled
- expelled
- fulfilled
- marvelled
- misspelled
How songwriters use these rhymes
All the words I learned for withhold came back as ahold.
No family rhymes for withhold. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
She gave the withhold away, then watched it come back as aholds.
Withhold on the upbeat, bemoaned on the down โ the slant does the work.
Listen for the consonant under withhold and you'll hear it again under afield.
Why withhold rhymes the way it does
Withhold is built around the round /ษ/ (/ษ/); it's two-syllable and shuts cleanly on a stopped consonant. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 52 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. 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. Withhold 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 withhold. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open withhold in RhymeForge above.