Ates rhymes with:
abates, annotates, awaits, aytes, baits, bates, bates', cates, coates, conflates, conjugates, crates, creates, date's, dates, debate's, debates, delegates', demodulates, desecrates, dictates, eight's, eights, elates, equates, estate's, estates, fates, frates, gates, gates', grates, great's, greats, hates, inflates, interstate's, kate's, kates, kuwait's, lecates, mates, misstates, narrates, negates, overrates, pates, plaits, plates, postdates, predates, procreates, rate's, rates, relates, restates, sates, scates, sedates, skates, slates, spates, speights, state's, states, states', straights, straits, tate's, traits, translates, updates, waite's, waites, waits, weights, yates, yeats, zaitz
Ates sounds like:
ad's, ad-hoc, ada's, adachi, adage, adagio, adak, adas, adaza, adcock, adcox, addicks, addidas, addidas', addidas's, addidases, addis, adds, adduci, adequacy, ades, adidas, adidas's, adios, adisq, ads, ads', adss, adtec, adweek, adz, aid's, aide's, aides, aides', aidid's, aids, ataxia, ataxia's, atco, atek, athas, atico, atocha, atsushi, attach, attache, attaches, attack, attacks, attic, attica, attics, atticus, attitudes, attwoods, atx, atz, audacious, audas, audi's, audiotex, audis, audits, auto's, autodesk, autos, awaits, aytes, ayyad's