Words that rhyme with Notorious
Notorious, a three-syllable word that sets the weather, lands its weight on the short /ษ/ and softens into a fricative tail. Songs use it to mark the emotional temperature. What the engine returns: perfect rhymes are thin on the ground, no family-rhyme matches turn up, and the vowel-only slant column is the deepest of the five. Lyric-wise, the word reads as a word the verse uses to fix its colour. Let the assonance column shape the verse; the strict matches can punctuate it.
Open notorious in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (5 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- victorious
- laborious
- victorias
- glorious
- inglorious
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 notorious. 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.
- anymore
- bore
- core
- corps
- door
- drawer
- floor
- gore
- more
- ore
- pour
- roar
- score
- shore
- soar
- sore
- store
- war
- wore
- before
- explore
- ignore
- restore
- antiwar
- guarantor
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- memorial
- tutorial
- historian
- consortium
- euphoria
- historians
- memorials
- tutorials
- arboreal
- pictorial
- praetorian
- sartorial
- accordion
- accordions
- emporia
- primordial
- victoria
- emporium
- orleans
- cornea
- laureate
- raptorial
- auditorium
- editorial
- corneas
Ending rhymes (25 shown)
A shared unstressed final syllable โ the window/shadow slant. Weaker than a perfect rhyme, completely idiomatic in song.
- analysis
- ridiculous
- eponymous
- actress
- anxious
- atlas
- axis
- basis
- bias
- business
- campus
- canvas
- census
- circus
- crisis
- duchess
- endless
- fairness
- famous
- fitness
- genius
- goodness
- illness
- jealous
- justice
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- hilarious
- mysterious
- delirious
- denarius
- gregarious
- nefarious
- precarious
- sartorius
- vicarious
- conspiracy
- curious
- furious
- serious
- various
- spurious
- imperious
- injurious
- penurious
- sorcerer
- sorcery
- curiouser
- deleterious
- cheerios
- embarrass
- enforcer
How songwriters use these rhymes
There's the word for notorious, and the older word for victorious, and the song between them.
No family rhymes for notorious. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
She gave the notorious away, then watched it come back as anymore.
What we called notorious, the lyric heard as memorial.
Sing notorious, answer with analysis: the endings lean on each other and hold.
Notorious and hilarious share the closing shape, even when the vowels disagree.
Why notorious rhymes the way it does
Pull notorious apart phonetically and you get a three-syllable word with the front /ษ/ (/ษ/) as the rhyme-bearing vowel; the close tails through a fricative. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 5 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 189, assonance 7,251, and consonance 106. 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. How to use it: hold the strict matches for the moments the listener expects, and use the slants to surprise where they don't. Notorious pairs especially well with assonance because the vowel column is deeper than the consonant column.
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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 notorious. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open notorious in RhymeForge above.