Words that rhyme with Poultry
There's a particular shape to poultry: two-syllable, built on the high /ɪ/, ending that leaves the vowel hanging open. The lyric earns it by placement, not by selection. This one travels in song as a workaday word. Type rhymes for poultry into any dictionary and the answer is roughly the same: perfect rhymes are not on the table, no family-rhyme matches turn up, and the slant-by-vowel pool is enormous. Assonance is where the modern songwriting toolkit lives for this one.
Open poultry in RhymeForge →Perfect rhymes (0 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
No strict perfect rhymes for poultry in our dictionary. The slant columns below carry the load.
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 poultry. 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.
- revolt
- bolt
- colt
- holt
- jolt
- molt
- volt
- aglow
- ago
- although
- below
- bestow
- bio
- bordeaux
- chateau
- chateaux
- cointreau
- dunno
- escrow
- forego
- forgo
- gateau
- hello
- kayo
- nouveau
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- boldly
- coldly
- oldies
- colbys
- ghostly
- goldy
- moldy
- mostly
- mouldy
- oldie
- colby
- coley
- foley
- goalie
- holy
- lowly
- moly
- poley
- polje
- slowly
- tolly
- wholly
- bogeyed
- ponied
- paltry
Consonance (16 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- sultry
- sweltry
- ultra
- helotry
- toiletry
- zealotry
- dilatory
- idolatry
- military
- solitary
- aleatory
- depilatory
- nonmilitary
- revelatory
- conciliatory
- paramilitary
How songwriters use these rhymes
No strict perfect rhymes for poultry in our dictionary. The slant columns below carry the load.
No family rhymes for poultry. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
She gave the poultry away, then watched it come back as revolt.
Track the vowel from poultry to boldly and you have the chorus.
Listen for the consonant under poultry and you'll hear it again under sultry.
Why poultry rhymes the way it does
Poultry is built around the short /ɪ/ (/ɪ/); it's two-syllable and ends on an unbuttoned vowel. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 0 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 106, assonance 7,681, and consonance 16. 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. Practical: skim the strict column first and pick the two or three matches you can sing without thinking. Then move to assonance for the in-between lines. Poultry reads as more memorable when the strict matches are reserved for the line endings that matter most.
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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 poultry. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open poultry in RhymeForge above.