Words that rhyme with Noteworthy
Approached as a word that wants concrete rhymes to ground it, noteworthy is a four-syllable core sitting on the tight /ษช/ โ which opens out at the end. Abstract words like this work best when the surrounding line is sensory. From the rhyme-data side: only a handful of strict perfect rhymes survive, no near-perfect family slants exist for this one, and the assonance column dwarfs the others. From the lyric side, it works as a word that wants concrete rhymes to ground it. Use the assonance pool freely; the ear treats most of those matches as rhymes.
Open noteworthy in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (8 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- worthy
- unworthy
- earthy
- airworthy
- newsworthy
- praiseworthy
- trustworthy
- untrustworthy
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 noteworthy. 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.
- worthies
- inter
- occur
- prefer
- refer
- transfer
- concur
- confer
- deter
- incur
- infer
- monsieur
- connoisseur
- reoccur
- restauranteur
- saboteur
- fur
- sir
- stir
- chauffeur
- defer
- demur
- liqueur
- recur
- entrepreneur
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- attorney
- derby
- dirty
- early
- hurry
- journey
- mercy
- surrey
- worried
- worry
- attorneys
- earthly
- unearthly
- birdie
- birdies
- blurry
- clergy
- curly
- curried
- curvy
- flurried
- flurry
- furry
- guernsey
- guernseys
Ending rhymes (25 shown)
A shared unstressed final syllable โ the window/shadow slant. Weaker than a perfect rhyme, completely idiomatic in song.
- grocery
- nobody
- notably
- overly
- poetry
- solely
- holy
- lonely
- pony
- trophy
- wholly
- adobe
- bologna
- coyote
- emoji
- notary
- oversee
- potency
- quixote
- rosary
- rosemary
- rotary
- unholy
- seaworthy
- agency
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- further
- together
- bother
- father
- gather
- heather
- leather
- weather
- gatherer
- worthier
- bather
- breather
- feather
- nether
- rather
- smoother
- tether
- wither
- feathery
- leathery
- altogether
- breathe
- smooth
- godfather
- grandfather
How songwriters use these rhymes
You said noteworthy, I heard worthy, neither of us was wrong.
No family rhymes for noteworthy. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
It started as noteworthy, ended as worthies, same vowel either way.
What we called noteworthy, the lyric heard as attorney.
Let noteworthy fade into grocery; the final syllable does the rhyming for you.
Listen for the consonant under noteworthy and you'll hear it again under further.
Why noteworthy rhymes the way it does
Noteworthy is four-syllable, its rhyme-relevant vowel sitting on the high /ษช/, then it opens out at the end. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 8 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 65, assonance 1,810, and consonance 56. 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. The songwriter's move is to pick a small set of strict rhymes for the chorus and open up to family and assonance through the verses. Noteworthy rewards slant rhyming because the strict pool, when over-used, calls attention to itself.
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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 noteworthy. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open noteworthy in RhymeForge above.