Words that rhyme with Worry
In phonetic terms, worry is a two-syllable anchor on the high /ษช/, which ends on an unbuttoned vowel. Common words like this gain weight from the company they keep on the line. Anyone hunting rhymes for worry ends up at the same crossroads: perfect-rhyme territory is narrow, family-rhyme territory comes up dry, while the assonance well is bottomless. Its lyric role is an unguarded everyday word. Reach for the assonance list whenever the strict pool starts repeating itself.
Open worry in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (15 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- blurry
- burry
- currie
- flurry
- furry
- gurry
- hurry
- murray
- murree
- murrey
- murry
- scurry
- slurry
- surrey
- towery
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 worry. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant rhyming.
Additive & subtractive (11 shown)
Same core sound, with an extra consonant added (or one dropped) at the end.
- curried
- curries
- flurried
- flurries
- hurried
- hurries
- scurried
- worried
- worries
- unhurried
- unworried
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- birdie
- birdied
- birdies
- burgee
- burley
- burly
- burpee
- burpees
- chirpy
- clergy
- curly
- curtly
- curtsy
- curvy
- derby
- dirty
- early
- earthly
- earthy
- fermi
- firmly
- firstly
- girlie
- guernsey
- guernseys
Consonance (0 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
No consonance matches for worry in our dictionary โ its closing consonant is rare in English.
How songwriters use these rhymes
You said worry, I heard blurry, neither of us was wrong.
No family rhymes for worry. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
She gave the worry away, then watched it come back as curried.
What we called worry, the lyric heard as birdie.
No consonance matches for worry โ the closing consonant is rare in our dictionary.
Why worry rhymes the way it does
The phonology of worry is a two-syllable core: the clipped /ษช/ (/ษช/), then it leaves the vowel hanging open. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 15 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 11, assonance 1,862, and consonance 0. The empty consonance column tells you something โ the closing consonant of this word is rare enough that nothing else in English shares it cleanly. Slant work has to come from the vowel side instead. Practical: skim the strict column first and pick the two or three matches you can sing without thinking. Then move to assonance for the in-between lines. Worry reads as more memorable when the strict matches are reserved for the line endings that matter most.
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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 worry. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open worry in RhymeForge above.