Words that rhyme with Pretty
A two-syllable word that reads as a workaday word, pretty sits on the short /ษช/ and doesn't close on a consonant at all. It's an unremarkable word until the verse asks it to do something. This one travels in song as a word the lyric earns weight from by context. Type rhymes for pretty into any dictionary and the answer is roughly the same: the perfect-rhyme list is short, no near-perfect family slants exist for this one, and the vowel-match pool carries the volume. The slant-by-vowel column will carry you a long way past the strict matches.
Open pretty in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (19 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- bitty
- chitty
- city
- ditty
- gritty
- kitty
- nitty
- pity
- witty
- biddy
- bridie
- diddy
- giddy
- kiddie
- kiddy
- smiddy
- shitty
- committee
- subcommittee
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 pretty. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant rhyming.
Additive & subtractive (6 shown)
Same core sound, with an extra consonant added (or one dropped) at the end.
- cities
- ditties
- pretties
- pitied
- committees
- subcommittees
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- bitsy
- ditsy
- glitzy
- jitney
- mitre
- ritzy
- diddley
- kiddies
- kidney
- kidneys
- ridley
- sydney
- tiddly
- beery
- biggie
- biggies
- bilby
- billie
- billy
- bitchy
- bizzy
- bleary
- briskly
- brisky
- busied
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- batty
- beaty
- beauty
- bitter
- bootie
- booty
- catty
- chatty
- chitter
- clootie
- critter
- cutie
- cutty
- dirty
- ditto
- dotty
- doty
- doughty
- duty
- eighty
- fatty
- fitter
- flighty
- fluty
- fritter
How songwriters use these rhymes
I keep on saying pretty, and the night keeps saying bitty back.
No family rhymes for pretty. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
It started as pretty, ended as cities, same vowel either way.
The vowel between pretty and bitsy carries the rhyme โ the consonants step aside.
The pretty at the start of the line, the batty tucked inside it, same consonant frame.
Why pretty rhymes the way it does
The rhyme map for pretty starts at the vowel โ the high /ษช/, IPA /ษช/ โ and ends where the line doesn't close on a consonant at all. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 19 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 6, assonance 10,963, and consonance 940. The empty family column matters less than it looks. Family rhymes are a strict-classifier construct; the songwriter's ear accepts most assonance matches in their place. Writing-tip: don't end every line with the strict rhyme. Use the slant columns at the joints and the strict matches at the seams. Pretty works hardest when the slant carries the verse and the strict match closes the chorus.
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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 pretty. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open pretty in RhymeForge above.