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Words That Rhyme With Story

82 words rhyme with story, from 2 to 6 syllables: glory, gory, lorry, quarry, corrie and more, the everyday words first.

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2 syllables11 words

  • glory
  • gory
  • lorry
  • quarry
  • corrie
  • dory
  • hoary

Rare: lory, storey, tori, tory

3 syllables3 words

Rare: outlawry, pylori, signori

4 syllables26 words

  • allegory
  • auditory
  • category
  • dormitory
  • inventory
  • laboratory
  • lavatory
  • mandatory
  • migratory
  • oratory
  • predatory
  • purgatory
  • statutory
  • territory
  • transitory
  • desultory
  • dilatory
  • excretory
  • laudatory
  • nugatory
  • promissory
  • repertory
  • signatory

Rare: cacciatore, multistory, understory

5 syllables33 words

  • circulatory
  • contributory
  • defamatory
  • derogatory
  • explanatory
  • inflammatory
  • obligatory
  • observatory
  • preparatory
  • repository
  • respiratory
  • accusatory
  • admonitory
  • ambulatory
  • celebratory
  • compensatory
  • confirmatory
  • depilatory
  • depository
  • exculpatory
  • exploratory
  • prohibitory
  • reformatory
  • regulatory
  • retaliatory

Rare: aleatory, confiscatory, declaratory, expiratory, incantatory, inhibitory, oscillatory, revelatory

6 syllables9 words

  • discriminatory
  • anticipatory
  • conciliatory
  • congratulatory
  • hallucinatory
  • interrogatory
  • investigatory
  • participatory

Rare: articulatory

Slant rhymes19 words

Looser: the same stressed vowel and a similar ending, the closest first. Common in songs and poems.

  • corny
  • forty
  • portly
  • sorely
  • stormy
  • thorny
  • warmly
  • shortly
  • swarthy
  • uniformly
  • corgi
  • porky
  • horsey
  • shorty
  • sortie
  • sporty
  • courtly
  • fourthly
  • seaworthy

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Pronunciations from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, © 1993-2015 Carnegie Mellon University, matched to our dictionary of English words.

Questions

What rhymes with story?

glory, gory, lorry, quarry, corrie, dory, and every other word that end in the same sounds as story. 82 rhymes in all.

How many syllables are in story?

Story has 2 syllables.

How are the rhymes chosen?

Two words rhyme when they sound the same from their last stressed vowel to the end: these are perfect rhymes, matched by sound, not by spelling. Near rhymes keep the vowel and swap a consonant for one that sounds alike, like time and mine.

What are slant rhymes for story?

Looser rhymes with the same stressed vowel and a similar ending, the closest first: corny, forty, portly, sorely, stormy, thorny. Songwriters use them where a perfect rhyme would sound forced.

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