Words that rhyme with Worrying
Sound and sense both matter for worrying. The sound: two-syllable, vowel on the mid /ษ/, ending that rings out through a nasal. The sense: a stop-by-stop-grocery-shelf word. Common words like this gain weight from the company they keep on the line. When the search is rhymes for worrying, the answer takes a specific form: the picked top sets below tell most of the story: the strict column is unhelpful here, no family rhymes survive the strict family test, and the assonance column dwarfs the others. Lyrically, the word arrives as a quotidian anchor. The contemporary ear forgives โ and prefers โ the assonance matches here.
Open worrying in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (3 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- currying
- hurrying
- scurrying
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 worrying. 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.
- connoisseur
- reoccur
- restauranteur
- saboteur
- chauffeur
- concur
- confer
- defer
- demur
- deter
- incur
- infer
- inter
- liqueur
- monsieur
- occur
- prefer
- recur
- refer
- transfer
- entrepreneur
- restaurateur
- birr
- blur
- bur
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- journeying
- clergymen
- tertius
- verbiage
- worthiness
- monkeying
- countrymen
- hernia
- moneyless
- vernier
- bungling
- functioning
- hungering
- hungrier
- hunkering
- junkier
- junkiest
- mongering
- puncturing
- funnier
- furnishes
- furnishing
- furnishings
- murmuring
- myrmidon
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- burrowing
- cowering
- flowering
- glowering
- layering
- lowering
- powering
- scouring
- showering
- souring
- spiering
- towering
- accruing
- agreeing
- allaying
- allowing
- annoying
- applying
- arraying
- belying
- bestowing
- betraying
- buffeting
- canoeing
- complying
How songwriters use these rhymes
You said worrying, I heard currying, neither of us was wrong.
No family rhymes for worrying. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
From worrying to connoisseur, a consonant arrives and the rhyme reshapes.
All night the worrying turned into journeying, vowel-first, consonants letting go.
Worrying and burrowing share the closing shape, even when the vowels disagree.
Why worrying rhymes the way it does
Pull worrying apart phonetically and you get a two-syllable word with the short /ษ/ (/ษ/) as the rhyme-bearing vowel; the close trails through a nasal hum. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 3 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 51, assonance 3,774, and consonance 327. 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 practice: start at the top of the perfect column, scan family next, and reach for the assonance pool when the strict matches feel worn. A lyric that uses only strict rhymes for worrying tends to read as dated; the contemporary ear forgives โ and often prefers โ the slant.
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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 worrying. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open worrying in RhymeForge above.