Words that rhyme with Authority
Authority works as a word that wants concrete rhymes to ground it on the lyric side and four-syllable the short /ɪ/ on the sound side — it opens out at the end at the close. Abstract words like this work best when the surrounding line is sensory. It serves as a word the songwriter reaches for when the line needs scaffolding in most lyrics. If you came here looking for what rhymes with authority, here's the shape of it: no strict perfect rhymes exist in our dictionary, nothing lands in the family-rhyme column, and the assonance bucket is the workhorse here. Use the assonance pool freely; the ear treats most of those matches as rhymes.
Open authority in RhymeForge →Perfect rhymes (4 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- majority
- minority
- priority
- sorority
Family rhymes (0 shown)
Same vowel, with a single consonant swapped for one from the same articulatory family. Slant rhymes that pass the ear test.
No family rhymes for authority. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant rhyming.
Additive & subtractive (25 shown)
Same core sound, with an extra consonant added (or one dropped) at the end.
- authorities
- minorities
- priorities
- sororities
- antiwar
- anymore
- guarantor
- heretofore
- underscore
- baur
- boar
- bore
- chore
- cor
- core
- corps
- door
- dore
- dorr
- drawer
- floor
- flor
- for
- fore
- four
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- reportedly
- affordably
- abnormally
- absorbency
- conformity
- deformities
- deformity
- enormity
- enormously
- importantly
- mortally
- androgyny
- cosmology
- discography
- dishonestly
- necrology
- rheology
- scatology
- topology
- unlawfully
- informally
- florally
- morally
- orally
- paucity
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- barbarity
- celerity
- dexterity
- disparity
- hilarity
- maturity
- obscurity
- polarity
- posterity
- prosperity
- security
- seniority
- sincerity
- temerity
- asperity
- conspirator
- severity
- vulgarity
- impurity
- excoriate
- clarity
- orator
- parity
- purity
- rarity
How songwriters use these rhymes
There's the word for authority, and the older word for majority, and the song between them.
No family rhymes for authority. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
Authority alone, authorities in the chorus — the song builds the consonant in.
All night the authority turned into reportedly, vowel-first, consonants letting go.
Inside the line, authority echoes barbarity on consonant alone.
Why authority rhymes the way it does
The phonology of authority is a four-syllable core: the tight /ɪ/ (/ɪ/), then it opens out at the end. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 4 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 136, assonance 8,143, and consonance 148. That's a narrow strict column with a very deep slant well beneath it. Modern songwriting reads those slants as rhymes; the ear has been trained on them for a century. Writing-tip: don't end every line with the strict rhyme. Use the slant columns at the joints and the strict matches at the seams. Authority works hardest when the slant carries the verse and the strict match closes the chorus.
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About RhymeForge
RhymeForge is the free rhyme finder built into Undercover Zest. It searches over 54,000 words across five rhyme types: perfect, family, additive, assonance, and consonance. It is built for songwriters, not crossword solvers, and the slant-rhyme classifications are tuned accordingly.
This page is a static snapshot of the rhymes for authority. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open authority in RhymeForge above.