Persistence rhymes with:
assistance, consistence, insistence, self-subsistence, subsistence, assistance, coexistence, consistence, distance, existence, insistence, outdistance, resistance, resistence, self-subsistence, subsistence
Persistence sounds like:
parachuting, percutaneous, persecuting, persecutions, persisting, persuading, precautions, precedence, preceding, preceeding, preexisting, presidencies, presidency, presidency's, presiding, preston's, proceeding, proceedings, projecting, projections, prosecuting, prosecution's, prosecutions