Words that rhyme with Worthless
Worthless belongs to the two-syllable group; its vowel is the mid /ษ/, and it spills into a fricative. The lyric tradition treats it as a word the elegy reaches for first. The line containing it usually mourns something. The strict-rhyme column is bare, family rhymes come up empty, while the slant-vowel column carries the page on its own. Search for what rhymes with worthless and the engine returns a recognisable shape: the deeper map matters more than the headline count. Modern lyric writing on this word lives almost entirely in the assonance pool.
Open worthless in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (0 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
No strict perfect rhymes for worthless in our dictionary. The slant columns below carry the load.
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 worthless. 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.
- rebirths
- berths
- births
- earths
- worths
- adverse
- averse
- chauffeur
- coerce
- concur
- confer
- defer
- demur
- deter
- disburse
- disperse
- diverse
- emerse
- immerse
- incur
- infer
- inter
- inverse
- liqueur
- monsieur
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- surplus
- wordless
- burbles
- circles
- colonels
- hurdles
- journals
- kernels
- myrtles
- purples
- turtles
- burbled
- circled
- circuits
- currents
- ergots
- firmness
- furthest
- hermits
- kerchiefs
- merlots
- sternness
- terseness
- turnips
- worships
Consonance (3 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- breathless
- ruthless
- toothless
How songwriters use these rhymes
No strict perfect rhymes for worthless in our dictionary. The slant columns below carry the load.
No family rhymes for worthless. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
She gave the worthless away, then watched it come back as rebirths.
What we called worthless, the lyric heard as surplus.
Worthless and breathless: the vowels are different but the consonants are kin.
Why worthless rhymes the way it does
The rhyme map for worthless starts at the vowel โ the centred /ษ/, IPA /ษ/ โ and ends where the line trails off into a fricative. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 0 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 84, assonance 4,079, and consonance 3. 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. Practical guidance: read the song aloud and listen for where a slant would tighten the line. Strict rhymes are the structural skeleton; the slant columns are where the personality of the lyric lives. With worthless, the slant work is doing more weight-bearing than it looks.
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About RhymeForge
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