Words that rhyme with Terribly
The shape of terribly: three-syllable, vowel coloured by the clipped /ɪ/, ending that ends on an unbuttoned vowel. It's a word everyone uses — which is what makes it powerful in a lyric. This one travels in song as a word the lyric earns weight from by context. Type rhymes for terribly into any dictionary and the answer is roughly the same: perfect rhymes are not on the table, the family-rhyme bucket is bare, and the slant pool is enormous on the vowel side. The slant column is doing the heavy lifting; let it.
Open terribly in RhymeForge →Perfect rhymes (2 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- bearably
- unbearably
Only 2 matches for terribly in this type — the slant columns below pick up the slack.
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 terribly. 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.
- clientele
- personnel
- pirouette
- abele
- bandshell
- bedel
- befell
- burrell
- cartel
- carvel
- compel
- dispel
- excel
- expel
- farewell
- ferrel
- foretell
- gazelle
- hotel
- impel
- intel
- lapel
- marcel
- misspell
- morel
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- carefully
- credibly
- therapies
- blessedly
- charities
- chemically
- dreadfully
- embassy
- heavenly
- helplessly
- jealously
- medically
- mentally
- parities
- parodied
- parodies
- severally
- testily
- therapy
- verities
- carelessly
- clarity
- embassies
- endlessly
- heraldry
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- bearable
- horribly
- parable
- terrible
- wearable
- arable
- curable
- durable
- horrible
- repairable
- unbearable
- adorable
- deplorable
- desirable
- incurable
- nondurable
- barbel
- barbell
- corbeil
- corbel
- doorbell
- garble
- marble
- parboil
- warble
How songwriters use these rhymes
You said terribly, I heard bearably, neither of us was wrong.
No family rhymes for terribly. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
Terribly alone, clientele in the chorus — the song builds the consonant in.
Track the vowel from terribly to carefully and you have the chorus.
Inside the line, terribly echoes bearable on consonant alone.
Why terribly rhymes the way it does
Pull terribly apart phonetically and you get a three-syllable word with the short /ɪ/ (/ɪ/) as the rhyme-bearing vowel; the close leaves the vowel hanging open. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 2 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 84, assonance 10,821, and consonance 32. 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. In the room with a guitar: write toward the strict rhyme first, then go back through and replace the obvious ones with the assonance matches that earned their place. Terribly is a word that benefits from the second pass.
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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 terribly. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open terribly in RhymeForge above.