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Words That Rhyme With Family

There is no perfect rhyme for “family” among common English words. The closest are families, happily, camel, calamity, camels; slant rhymes such as exactly, saturday, practically work well in lyrics.

Closest rhymes for family

Same stressed vowel with an ending that is one or two sounds off. The best you can do without a perfect rhyme.

  • families
  • happily
  • camel
  • calamity
  • camels
  • mammal
  • mammals
  • unhappily
  • enamel
  • galilee
  • exactly
  • battle
  • travel
  • damage
  • reality
  • example
  • carol
  • sally
  • badly
  • valley
  • naturally
  • channel
  • apple
  • castle
  • frankly
  • stanley
  • alley
  • miami
  • sample
  • tragedy

Slant rhymes for family

Share the vowel or the final consonant. Great for natural-sounding lyrics.

  • exactly
  • saturday
  • practically
  • factory
  • unhappy
  • miami
  • battery
  • salary
  • gallery
  • apache
  • fiancee
  • finale
  • granddaddy
  • landlady
  • anarchy
  • cranberry
  • raspberry
  • shadowy
  • allergy
  • sanctity
  • uncanny
  • flattery
  • tragically
  • chimpanzee
  • panicky
  • comanche
  • actively
  • daiquiri
  • verbally
  • salisbury
  • blackberry
  • chianti
  • radically
  • mastery
  • amity
  • candidly
  • ancestry
  • calgary
  • happy
  • daddy

Multi-syllable rhymes for family

The last two vowel sounds match.

  • actually
  • majesty
  • magazine
  • reality
  • naturally
  • families
  • fantasy
  • anthony
  • tragedy
  • academy
  • magazines
  • happily
  • strategy
  • capacity
  • insanity
  • balcony
  • casualties
  • gravity
  • galaxy
  • gasoline
  • cavalry
  • fantasies
  • faculty
  • hospitality
  • vanity
  • agony
  • rapidly
  • morality
  • battlefield
  • anatomy

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Rhymes for family: questions

Does anything rhyme with family?

No common English word is a perfect rhyme for “family”: nothing shares its stressed vowel and every sound after it. The closest-sounding words are families, happily, camel, calamity, camels, mammal, and writers usually rhyme it with a slant rhyme or by splitting the sound across two words.

What rhymes with family?

“family” has few perfect rhymes. Try near and slant rhymes such as exactly, saturday, practically, factory, unhappy, miami, battery, salary.

What is a slant rhyme for family?

Slant and near rhymes for “family” include exactly, saturday, practically, factory. They share the vowel sound or the ending, so they sound natural in lyrics.

How many syllables are in family?

“family” has 3 syllables, according to the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.

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