Words that rhyme with Obituary
Approached as a household-word, obituary is a four-syllable core sitting on the short /ษช/ โ which ends on an open vowel. It's an unremarkable word until the verse asks it to do something. Songwriters who arrive looking for what rhymes with obituary find the same uneven map: the picked top sets below tell most of the story: the perfect column carries weight on its own, family rhymes come up empty, and the vowel-only slant pool is deep enough to write a whole album from. Lyrically, the word arrives as a stop-by-stop-grocery-shelf word. The strict list gives you a chorus' worth of options before you ever need a slant.
Open obituary in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- berry
- bury
- cherry
- dairy
- fairy
- ferry
- hairy
- kerry
- marry
- merry
- prairie
- scary
- vary
- hereditary
- judiciary
- subsidiary
- vocabulary
- airy
- barre
- derry
- parry
- very
- wary
- canary
- apothecary
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 obituary. 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.
- buried
- married
- varied
- faring
- ferried
- parried
- unmarried
- confectionaries
- contemporaries
- fiduciaries
- itineraries
- obituaries
- preliminaries
- proprietaries
- reactionaries
- subsidiaries
- berries
- buries
- cherries
- dairies
- fairies
- ferries
- harried
- harries
- marries
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- elementary
- belly
- chelsea
- deadly
- delhi
- empty
- entry
- envy
- friendly
- gently
- healthy
- heavy
- jelly
- lengthy
- levy
- messy
- plenty
- ready
- semi
- sexy
- steady
- twenty
- wealthy
- already
- assembly
Ending rhymes (25 shown)
A shared unstressed final syllable โ the window/shadow slant. Weaker than a perfect rhyme, completely idiomatic in song.
- country
- hungry
- laundry
- contrary
- inquiry
- jewelry
- library
- poetry
- recovery
- rivalry
- geometry
- filigree
- maxillary
- busy
- city
- fifty
- filthy
- guilty
- indie
- kidney
- kitty
- lily
- mini
- pity
- pretty
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- inventory
- riviera
- scenario
- embarcadero
- curry
- era
- error
- fury
- glory
- jury
- narrow
- para
- sorry
- sparrow
- story
- terror
- tory
- obligatory
- repository
- caballero
- cacciatore
- calamari
- euphoria
- guayabera
- hysteria
How songwriters use these rhymes
All the words I learned for obituary came back as berry.
No family rhymes for obituary. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
Obituary alone, buried in the chorus โ the song builds the consonant in.
The vowel between obituary and elementary carries the rhyme โ the consonants step aside.
Sing obituary, answer with country: the endings lean on each other and hold.
Listen for the consonant under obituary and you'll hear it again under inventory.
Why obituary rhymes the way it does
Obituary is four-syllable, its rhyme-relevant vowel sitting on the tight /ษช/, then it opens out at the end. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 167 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 71, assonance 7,192, and consonance 702. That's a deep perfect column. The song can ride strict rhymes from end to end, only sliding into assonance when the line needs to surprise. Practical guidance: read the song aloud and listen for where a slant would tighten the line. Strict rhymes are the structural skeleton; the slant columns are where the personality of the lyric lives. With obituary, the slant work is doing more weight-bearing than it looks.
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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 obituary. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open obituary in RhymeForge above.