Escalated rhymes with:
accumulated, annihilated, assimilated, capitulated, congratulated, emulated, encapsulated, extrapolated, inoculated, interpolated, manipulated, miscalculated, nonregulated, overregulated, recalculated, reformulated, simulated, stipulated, tabulated, tesselated, titillated, unregulated, ventilated
Escalated sounds like:
egaldey, eickholt, ejaculate, equaled, equality, escalate, esselte, euclid, exalt, exalted, excelled, exclude, excluded, exhaled, exiled, exult, exulted