Words that rhyme with beat
596 rhymes for beat: street, feet, heat, sweet, meat, seat, sheet, treat, eat, cheat, greet, fleet, neat, meet. Every one is a word you would actually rap.
Perfect rhymes
These land dead on. Tap any word to keep it.
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Phrases that rhyme with beat
Whole phrases landing on the same sound. A phrase fills more of the bar than one word does, so it buys you room to actually say something.
Slant rhymes for beat
Also called near rhymes. Each group keeps part of the sound and moves the rest, so these are the words that almost rhyme with beat. Closest first, so you can hear where each group starts pulling away from the hard t beat stops on.
-eats / -eets
-eed / -ead
-eep
-eak / -eek
-each / -eech
-iece / -ease
-ees / -eeze
-eeth / -eathe
-ief / -eaf
-eave / -ieve
-eam / -eme
-een / -ean
-eal / -eel
-oot / -ute
-et
-ite / -ight
More rhymes
Longer words that still land on the sound. Looser, but they work in a bar.
About beat
Beat is one syllable on a long ee and it stops hard on the t. It is also the word for the thing you are writing over, so a good part of the exact list already lives in a studio: drumbeat, downbeat, offbeat, upbeat. The rest is plain speech - street, feet, heat, sweet. The near lists below hold the ee and change what closes it, so need, keep and teeth all stay in the family. Shoot, get and night sit at the bottom, because they do the opposite: they keep the t and swap the vowel out. Shoot is the closest of those three, because it is the only one that stays long.
Rhyming with beat
The ones people actually ask.
Beat means the instrumental. Do the rhymes have to?
No, and that is the useful part. Drumbeat, downbeat, offbeat and upbeat already live in the studio, so they read as one thought with the anchor. But street, feet, heat, meat and sweet carry nothing of their own, so the bar can be about anything and still land. Most writers reach for the studio words first and run out fast.
I wrote beats, not beat. Which list do I use?
The first near group. Beat stops on the t; beats runs that t into an s, so it matches streets, seats, sheets and treats instead. Both lists are on this page for that reason. Streets has a page of its own if the whole verse is sitting in the plural.
The exact list is mostly -eet words. Does that matter?
Only on the page, not in the bar. Street, feet, sheet, sweet, greet and fleet all spell the same way beat does and a reader notices it; a listener does not. If the verse is starting to look repetitive, take the near groups instead. Need, teeth, keep, week and reach all hold the ee and change the ending, so the ear stays awake.
Shoot, get and night do not sound like beat. Why are they listed?
They keep the t and move the vowel, which is the opposite of everything above them, so those three groups sit last. Shoot is the nearest of them because oo is long the way ee is long, and the two vowels sit in the same place at the top of the mouth. Get and night cut the vowel short or bend it, so they are the thinnest link here. A listener still hears all three at speed, but use them when the bar already has a stronger rhyme carrying it.
How do I end a verse on beat without it sounding flat?
Put a longer word on the line before it. Incomplete, obsolete, bittersweet and indiscreet all take three syllables to arrive, so the ear is already travelling when the short word lands. Beat on its own at the end of four short bars is what makes a verse sound like a nursery rhyme.
More words
Same treatment, different word.