Words that rhyme with Priority
Sound and sense both matter for priority. The sound: three-syllable, vowel on the clipped /ɪ/, ending that doesn't close on a consonant at all. The sense: an abstract noun. Songwriters anchor it with an image to keep the line from floating. Pool data: there are essentially no strict perfect rhymes, no family-rhyme matches turn up, and the assonance pool has more matches than any verse will use. Its function in a song, meanwhile, is to act as a word the songwriter reaches for when the line needs scaffolding. The interior life of any lyric on this word is going to be the assonance list.
Open priority in RhymeForge →Perfect rhymes (4 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- authority
- majority
- minority
- sorority
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 priority. 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.
- authorities
- minorities
- priorities
- sororities
- antiwar
- anymore
- guarantor
- heretofore
- underscore
- baur
- boar
- bore
- chore
- cor
- core
- corps
- door
- dore
- dorr
- drawer
- floor
- flor
- for
- fore
- four
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- reportedly
- affordably
- abnormally
- absorbency
- conformity
- deformities
- deformity
- enormity
- enormously
- importantly
- mortally
- androgyny
- cosmology
- discography
- dishonestly
- necrology
- rheology
- scatology
- topology
- unlawfully
- informally
- florally
- morally
- orally
- paucity
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- barbarity
- celerity
- dexterity
- disparity
- hilarity
- maturity
- obscurity
- polarity
- posterity
- prosperity
- security
- seniority
- sincerity
- temerity
- asperity
- conspirator
- severity
- vulgarity
- impurity
- excoriate
- clarity
- orator
- parity
- purity
- rarity
How songwriters use these rhymes
Priority in the first verse, authority in the second, and a song between them.
No family rhymes for priority. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
From priority to authorities, a consonant arrives and the rhyme reshapes.
What we called priority, the lyric heard as reportedly.
The priority at the start of the line, the barbarity tucked inside it, same consonant frame.
Why priority rhymes the way it does
The rhyme map for priority starts at the vowel — the high /ɪ/, IPA /ɪ/ — and ends where the line leaves the vowel hanging open. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 4 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 136, assonance 8,143, and consonance 148. 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 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 priority, 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 priority. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open priority in RhymeForge above.