Words that rhyme with Bury
You can read bury two ways: as a quotidian anchor, or as a two-syllable shape on the tight /ɪ/ that ends on an unbuttoned vowel. Its everydayness lets the song surprise around it. Its job in a lyric is a plain-speech anchor, holding down whatever line it lands in. Search rhymes for bury long enough and you notice the pattern: strict matches show up in low numbers, nothing lands in the family-rhyme column, and the assonance count climbs into the thousands. When strict matches feel exhausted, the assonance column is where you go fishing.
Open bury in RhymeForge →Perfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- aerie
- airy
- ary
- cherry
- clary
- dairy
- derry
- eyrie
- fairy
- ferry
- hairy
- harry
- jerry
- kerry
- marry
- mary
- merry
- nary
- parry
- perry
- prairie
- scary
- sherry
- skerry
- tarry
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 bury. 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.
- berries
- buried
- buries
- cherries
- dairies
- fairies
- faring
- ferried
- ferries
- harried
- harries
- married
- marries
- nerine
- parried
- varied
- varies
- canaries
- remarried
- unmarried
- actuaries
- eh
- heh
- reh
- yeh
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- barely
- fairly
- rarely
- scarcely
- squarely
- aesthete
- aesthetes
- any
- belfry
- bellied
- bellies
- belly
- bendy
- benes
- beni
- benny
- benzine
- betty
- bevy
- bready
- breastfeed
- breastfeeds
- breathy
- celli
- chelsea
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- aero
- barrie
- barry
- bearer
- carer
- carry
- charry
- chary
- corey
- corrie
- curry
- dory
- dowry
- era
- error
- fairer
- faro
- fleury
- flory
- fury
- gari
- glory
- gori
- gory
- hoary
How songwriters use these rhymes
You said bury, I heard aerie, neither of us was wrong.
No family rhymes for bury. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
She gave the bury away, then watched it come back as berries.
The vowel between bury and barely carries the rhyme — the consonants step aside.
Bury and aero: the vowels are different but the consonants are kin.
Why bury rhymes the way it does
Bury is two-syllable, its rhyme-relevant vowel sitting on the short /ɪ/, then it opens out at the end. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 37 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 26, assonance 8,280, and consonance 509. The empty family column matters less than it looks. Family rhymes are a strict-classifier construct; the songwriter's ear accepts most assonance matches in their place. What matters when you're writing: the ear forgives slants in service of meaning. If the strict rhyme is the predictable word, the assonance match will usually hit harder. Bury is a word where the slant choice almost always reads as more thoughtful than the obvious end-rhyme.
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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 bury. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open bury in RhymeForge above.