Instead rhymes with:
stead, stead, ted, unted, abed, ahead, bed, behead, biomed, bled, bread, bred, dead, dread, dred, dredd, ed, embed, fed, fled, fread, fred, freda, ged, head, hilton-head, imbed, infrared, interbred, jed, lead, led, med, misled, ned, nedd, numed, overfed, overhead, pled, purebred, read, reade, red, redd, retread, said, sayed, schwed, sffed, shead, shed, shedd, shred, sled, sledd, sped, spread, stead, swed, szwed, ted, thoroughbred, thread, tread, unread, unsaid, unted, unwed, wed, wedd, wehde, widespread, zed
Instead sounds like:
immunized, incata, incest, inched, incised, incite, incited, inequity, inexact, ingest, ingested, ingot, iniquity, inject, injected, inkatha, inkjet, inquest, insect, inset, inside, insight, insist, insisted, institut, institute, instituted, instituto