Words that rhyme with Outcry
As a two-syllable word, outcry sits on the clipped /ɪ/ and ends on an open vowel. The lyric earns it by placement, not by selection. From the rhyme-data side: there's plenty in the strict column, the family-rhyme bucket is bare, and the vowel-match pool carries the volume. From the lyric side, it works as a common-tongue word. Hold the perfect column for the chorus; let the verses sample the slant columns.
Open outcry in RhymeForge →Perfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- apply
- comply
- deny
- goodbye
- imply
- mumbai
- rely
- supply
- aye
- bye
- chi
- cry
- die
- dry
- dye
- eye
- fly
- fry
- guy
- high
- lie
- pie
- shy
- sigh
- sky
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 outcry. 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.
- admire
- advice
- advise
- advised
- aligned
- alike
- alive
- allied
- alright
- arise
- arrive
- aside
- assigned
- awhile
- behind
- combined
- confined
- decline
- define
- defined
- denied
- design
- designed
- dislike
- divide
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- destroy
- employ
- enjoy
- bias
- bible
- binding
- biting
- buying
- client
- climate
- climbing
- crisis
- crying
- cycle
- dial
- diamond
- diet
- diving
- driver
- dying
- fiber
- fighter
- fighting
- final
- findings
Ending rhymes (15 shown)
A shared unstressed final syllable — the window/shadow slant. Weaker than a perfect rhyme, completely idiomatic in song.
- ally
- fungi
- magi
- birdseye
- cacti
- redeye
- octopi
- rarefy
- reapply
- sanctify
- emulsify
- eucalypti
- recertify
- reoccupy
- dehumidify
Consonance (0 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
No consonance matches for outcry in our dictionary — its closing consonant is rare in English.
How songwriters use these rhymes
I keep on saying outcry, and the night keeps saying apply back.
No family rhymes for outcry. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
Outcry at the verse, admire at the line that follows it.
Outcry at the line's beginning, destroy at its end, same vowel humming through both.
Sing outcry, answer with ally: the endings lean on each other and hold.
No consonance matches for outcry — the closing consonant is rare in our dictionary.
Why outcry rhymes the way it does
The phonology of outcry is a two-syllable core: the tight /ɪ/ (/ɪ/), then it opens out at the end. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 194 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 2040, assonance 2,017, and consonance 0. 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. 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. Outcry 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 outcry. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open outcry in RhymeForge above.