Patents rhymes with:
combatants, noncombatants, accountant's, accountants, accountants', assistants, combatants, constant's, constants, consultant's, consultants, contestants, decongestants, disinfectants, incompetents, inhabitants, irritants, militants, mutants, noncombatants, pollutants, protestants
Patents sounds like:
patient's, patients, patients', pedantic, piedmont's, potentates