Oates rhymes with:
bloats, boat's, boats, capote's, coat's, coats, connotes, cotes, denotes, devotes, floats, gloats, goat's, goats, misquotes, moats, motes, note's, notes, notes', oats, outvotes, ploetz, promotes, quotes, throats, totes, vote's, votes
Oates sounds like:
oaths, oatis, oats, odaiko, oddities, odds, odes, odessa, odetics, odious, odysseus, odyssey, odyssey's, otis, otsego, otsuka, ottawa's, ottaway's, otto's, otts, out's, outage, outages, outdoes, outgo, outguess, outguesses, outhouse, outhouses, outs, outsize, outtake, outtakes, outweigh, outweighs, outwits, owades