Words that rhyme with Worthy
Worthy is a two-syllable word built around the clipped /ɪ/, and it doesn't close on a consonant at all. Songwriters anchor it with an image to keep the line from floating. Engine returns: no strict pair turns up at all, nothing lands in the family-rhyme column, the assonance options multiply into the thousands. Lyric returns: an abstract noun. Let the assonance column shape the verse; the strict matches can punctuate it.
Open worthy in RhymeForge →Perfect rhymes (2 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- earthy
- unworthy
Only 2 matches for worthy 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 worthy. 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.
- worthies
- chauffeur
- concur
- confer
- defer
- demur
- deter
- incur
- infer
- inter
- liqueur
- monsieur
- occur
- prefer
- recur
- refer
- transfer
- birr
- blur
- bur
- burr
- cur
- durr
- fer
- fir
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- earthly
- birdie
- birdied
- birdies
- blurry
- burgee
- burley
- burly
- burpee
- burpees
- burry
- chirpy
- clergy
- curly
- currie
- curried
- curries
- curtly
- curtsy
- curvy
- derby
- dirty
- early
- fermi
- firmly
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- further
- bather
- blather
- bother
- breather
- dither
- either
- father
- feather
- gather
- heather
- hither
- lather
- leather
- neither
- nether
- rather
- slather
- slither
- smoother
- tether
- weather
- whether
- whither
- wither
How songwriters use these rhymes
The line ends on worthy; the next one starts on earthy.
No family rhymes for worthy. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
Worthy alone, worthies in the chorus — the song builds the consonant in.
Track the vowel from worthy to earthly and you have the chorus.
Worthy and further: the vowels are different but the consonants are kin.
Why worthy rhymes the way it does
Pull worthy apart phonetically and you get a two-syllable word with the tight /ɪ/ (/ɪ/) as the rhyme-bearing vowel; the close ends on an unbuttoned vowel. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 2 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 52, assonance 1,951, and consonance 50. 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 worthy, the slant work is doing more weight-bearing than it looks.
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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 worthy. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open worthy in RhymeForge above.