Tri-state rhymes with:
est, estate, interstate, intrastate, misstate, multistate, reinstate, restate, solid-state, state, upstate
Tri-state sounds like:
target, targeted, teresita, terhorst, terraced, terrorist, terrorized, theorist, theorized, thirst, thirsty, thorstad, thrashed, throughout, thrust, thurgood, thursday, torched, tourist, traced, tracht, tracked, tract, tragedy, trashed, traugott, treesweet, trekked, trescott, trest, trichet, tricked, trickett, trickiest, trieste, trista, tristate, troost, trost, trucked, truest, truscott, trust, trusted, trustee, trusty, trygstad, tryst, turcott, turcotte, turgid, turgut