Words that rhyme with Perjury
Start from the sound: perjury is a three-syllable word on the clipped /ษช/, and it ends on an open vowel. Plain-speech words like this earn weight through context. What the engine returns: the strict-rhyme column is bare, family rhymes are simply absent, and the assonance well runs into four figures. Lyric-wise, the word reads as a plain-speech anchor. Let the assonance column shape the verse; the strict matches can punctuate it.
Open perjury in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (2 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- surgery
- neurosurgery
Only 2 matches for perjury in this type โ the slant columns below pick up the slack.
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 perjury. 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.
- surgeries
- connoisseur
- reoccur
- restauranteur
- saboteur
- chauffeur
- concur
- confer
- defer
- demur
- deter
- incur
- infer
- inter
- liqueur
- monsieur
- occur
- prefer
- recur
- refer
- transfer
- entrepreneur
- restaurateur
- birr
- blur
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- burglaries
- burglary
- cursory
- fernery
- mercury
- nurseries
- nursery
- tertiary
- drudgery
- infirmary
- urgency
- urgently
- perjuring
- anniversaries
- anniversary
- burgeoning
- grudgingly
- virginal
- bludgeoning
- clergyman
- clergymen
- surgical
- burgundies
- burgundy
- certainly
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- perjurer
- sewerage
- dowager
- voyager
- menagerie
- demerger
- discourage
- disengage
- emoji
- encourage
- procedure
- reemerge
- seigniorage
- abridge
- ager
- allege
- assuage
- badger
- besiege
- bluejay
- cagey
- clergy
- converge
- courage
- dislodge
How songwriters use these rhymes
I keep on saying perjury, and the night keeps saying surgery back.
No family rhymes for perjury. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
Perjury alone, surgeries in the chorus โ the song builds the consonant in.
Perjury at the line's beginning, burglaries at its end, same vowel humming through both.
Listen for the consonant under perjury and you'll hear it again under perjurer.
Why perjury rhymes the way it does
Perjury sits on the tight /ษช/, transcribed /ษช/ in our engine, and ends on an unbuttoned vowel. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 2 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 52, assonance 2,000, and consonance 123. 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. In the room with a guitar: write toward the strict rhyme first, then go back through and replace the obvious ones with the assonance matches that earned their place. Perjury is a word that benefits from the second pass.
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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 perjury. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open perjury in RhymeForge above.