Words that rhyme with Severity
As a four-syllable word, severity sits on the clipped /ɪ/ and leaves the vowel hanging open. Abstract words like this work best when the surrounding line is sensory. The headline counts: strict matches show up in low numbers, no family rhymes survive the strict family test, and the assonance column dwarfs the others. The lyric headline: it works as a word that wants concrete rhymes to ground it. Reach for the assonance list whenever the strict pool starts repeating itself.
Open severity in RhymeForge →Perfect rhymes (6 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- asperity
- vulgarity
- austerity
- charity
- insularity
- unpopularity
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 severity. 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.
- rarities
- concessionaire
- billionaire
- debonair
- disrepair
- doctrinaire
- millionaire
- questionnaire
- solitaire
- unaware
- multimillionaire
- air
- ayre
- bare
- bear
- blare
- care
- chair
- cher
- dare
- ere
- err
- eyre
- fair
- fare
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- obscenity
- summarily
- yosemite
- affectively
- attentively
- collectively
- deceptively
- decrepitly
- domestically
- effectively
- generically
- necessities
- numerically
- objectively
- obscenities
- prospectively
- protectively
- respectively
- selectively
- aesthetically
- aggressively
- angelically
- athletically
- celebrities
- celebrity
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- celerity
- dexterity
- disparity
- hilarity
- polarity
- posterity
- prosperity
- seniority
- sincerity
- temerity
- authority
- barbarity
- majority
- maturity
- minority
- obscurity
- priority
- security
- sorority
- clarity
- parity
- rarity
- verity
- impurity
- inheritor
How songwriters use these rhymes
He left me the severity; I gave him the asperity back.
No family rhymes for severity. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
Severity alone, rarities in the chorus — the song builds the consonant in.
What we called severity, the lyric heard as obscenity.
Severity and celerity share the closing shape, even when the vowels disagree.
Why severity rhymes the way it does
Severity is built around the high /ɪ/ (/ɪ/); it's four-syllable and opens out at the end. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 6 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 160, assonance 11,143, and consonance 183. 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 severity, 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 severity. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open severity in RhymeForge above.