Tapered rhymes with:
papered, clippard, eppard, hampered, leopard, lepard, leppard, lippard, pampered, papered, peppard, peppered, poupard, prospered, rupard, scampered, shepard, sheperd, shephard, shepheard, shepherd, sheppard, shepperd, tampered, tempered, unhampered, wallpapered, whispered, zippered
Tapered sounds like:
tabbert, taubert, teaford, tedford, thedford, thetford, thibert, tit-for-tat, twiford, twyford