Words that rhyme with Sorry
Sorry, a two-syllable common-tongue word, lands its weight on the high /ษช/ and ends on an open vowel. Common words like this gain weight from the company they keep on the line. In a song, the word is a word everyone uses. Behind it, the rhyme map shows the perfect column gives you just enough to start, no near-perfect family slants exist for this one, and the assonance well runs into four figures. The interior life of any lyric on this word is going to be the assonance list.
Open sorry in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (6 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- chary
- gari
- starry
- imari
- safari
- calamari
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 sorry. 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.
- saris
- covaries
- safaris
- aha
- bourgeois
- hurrah
- huzzah
- markkaa
- pasha
- patois
- voila
- ah
- awe
- bah
- blah
- bois
- bra
- cha
- da
- ha
- hah
- ja
- ka
- la
- ma
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- archly
- armies
- army
- arty
- barbie
- barbies
- barby
- barley
- barney
- barneys
- barny
- cardy
- carney
- carsey
- charley
- charlie
- charpie
- darcy
- darkie
- darkly
- garvey
- garvie
- gnarly
- hardly
- hardy
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- aerie
- airy
- ary
- barra
- barre
- barrie
- barro
- barry
- beery
- berry
- bleary
- bury
- carry
- chara
- charry
- cheery
- cherry
- claro
- clary
- curry
- dairy
- deary
- derry
- dowry
- dreary
How songwriters use these rhymes
You said sorry, I heard chary, neither of us was wrong.
No family rhymes for sorry. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
She gave the sorry away, then watched it come back as saris.
The vowel between sorry and archly carries the rhyme โ the consonants step aside.
Inside the line, sorry echoes aerie on consonant alone.
Why sorry rhymes the way it does
Sorry is built around the clipped /ษช/ (/ษช/); it's two-syllable and doesn't close on a consonant at all. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 6 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 42, assonance 7,202, and consonance 533. 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. The songwriter's move is to pick a small set of strict rhymes for the chorus and open up to family and assonance through the verses. Sorry rewards slant rhyming because the strict pool, when over-used, calls attention to itself.
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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 sorry. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open sorry in RhymeForge above.