Words that rhyme with Wrath
Sound and sense both matter for wrath. The sound: one-syllable, vowel on a low-front /æ/, ending that trails off into a fricative. The sense: a heat word. It's the word a verse reaches for when it wants heat. Pool data: perfect matches come in a small handful, no near-perfect family slants exist for this one, and the vowel-only slant column is the deepest of the five. Its function in a song, meanwhile, is to act as a high-energy anchor. The slant-by-vowel column will carry you a long way past the strict matches.
Open wrath in RhymeForge →Perfect rhymes (7 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- bath
- gath
- hath
- lath
- math
- path
- telepath
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 wrath. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant rhyming.
Additive & subtractive (3 shown)
Same core sound, with an extra consonant added (or one dropped) at the end.
- baths
- pah
- yeah
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- paths
- ab
- abbs
- act
- acts
- ad
- add
- adds
- ads
- adz
- aft
- ag
- al
- alf
- alps
- als
- am
- amp
- an
- ands
- ankh
- ann
- ant
- ants
- app
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- berth
- beth
- birth
- booth
- both
- breath
- broth
- cloth
- dearth
- death
- doth
- earth
- faith
- firth
- frith
- froth
- furth
- girth
- goth
- growth
- haith
- heath
- heighth
- heth
- loath
How songwriters use these rhymes
She kept her wrath close, and her bath closer.
No family rhymes for wrath. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
Wrath at the verse, baths at the line that follows it.
What we called wrath, the lyric heard as paths.
Listen for the consonant under wrath and you'll hear it again under berth.
Why wrath rhymes the way it does
Wrath is one-syllable, its rhyme-relevant vowel sitting on the short /æ/, then it ends in a hissed consonant. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 7 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 3, assonance 6,718, and consonance 90. 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. What matters when you're writing: the ear forgives slants in service of meaning. If the strict rhyme is the predictable word, the assonance match will usually hit harder. Wrath is a word where the slant choice almost always reads as more thoughtful than the obvious end-rhyme.
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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 wrath. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open wrath in RhymeForge above.