Words that rhyme with Try
As a one-syllable word, try sits on a long-i vowel that opens the mouth and leaves the vowel hanging open. It's an unremarkable word until the verse asks it to do something. Its job in a lyric is a forward-motion word, holding down whatever line it lands in. If you came here looking for what rhymes with try, here's the shape of it: you won't run short of perfect rhymes, the family-rhyme bucket is bare, and the assonance well is bottomless. Lean on the strict column for the hooks; the slants can colour the verses.
Open try in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- aye
- bye
- chi
- cry
- die
- dry
- dye
- eye
- fly
- fry
- guy
- high
- lie
- pie
- shy
- sigh
- sky
- spy
- thy
- tie
- why
- buy
- by
- my
- nigh
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 try. 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.
- bike
- bind
- bite
- blind
- bride
- bright
- child
- climb
- climbed
- crime
- dice
- dive
- drive
- eyes
- fight
- file
- find
- fine
- flight
- grind
- guide
- height
- hide
- hike
- hype
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- boy
- joy
- toy
- coy
- hoy
- ploy
- soy
- cloy
- foy
- goy
- hoi
- loy
- moy
- oi
- oy
- oye
- troy
- destroy
- employ
- enjoy
- bias
- bible
- binding
- biting
- buying
Ending rhymes (0 shown)
A shared unstressed final syllable โ the window/shadow slant. Weaker than a perfect rhyme, completely idiomatic in song.
No ending rhymes for try โ its final syllable carries the stress, so the columns above do the work.
Consonance (0 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
No consonance matches for try in our dictionary โ its closing consonant is rare in English.
How songwriters use these rhymes
Try in the first verse, aye in the second, and a song between them.
No family rhymes for try. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
Try at the verse, bike at the line that follows it.
All night the try turned into boy, vowel-first, consonants letting go.
No ending rhymes for try โ its final syllable carries the stress, so the columns above do the work.
No consonance matches for try โ the closing consonant is rare in our dictionary.
Why try rhymes the way it does
The rhyme map for try starts at the vowel โ the bright /aษช/, IPA /aษช/ โ and ends where the line opens out at the end. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 192 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 2040, assonance 2,017, and consonance 0. That's a deep perfect column. The song can ride strict rhymes from end to end, only sliding into assonance when the line needs to surprise. How to use it: hold the strict matches for the moments the listener expects, and use the slants to surprise where they don't. Try pairs especially well with assonance because the vowel column is deeper than the consonant column.
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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 try. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open try in RhymeForge above.