Words that rhyme with shortness
Closest near rhymes for shortness
darkness, enormous, fortress and corpus
No common English word is a perfect rhyme for shortness. The closest near rhymes are darkness, enormous, fortress and corpus.
Near rhymes for shortness
These share the stressed vowel or the ending but not every sound. Songwriters call them slant rhymes.
- darkness
- enormous
- fortress
- corpus
- tortoise
- sharpness
- softness
- orcas
- baldness
- porpoise
- fortis
- smallness
- smartness
- importance
- chorus
- harness
- ordnance
- porous
- hornets
- hardness
- shortening
- amorphous
- thesaurus
- cordless
- harshness
- tyrannosaurus
- remoteness
- remorseless
- loris
- rawness
- brontosaurus
- corniche
- stegosaurus
Perfect rhymes for shortness
No common word ends with exactly the same sound as shortness.
How shortness sounds
| Pronunciation | /ˈʃɔɹtnəs/ |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (SHORT-ness) |
| Stress pattern | DUM-da |
| Rhyme sound | -ɔɹtnəs |
Shortness has two syllables, with the stress on the first. Rhymes must match from the stressed vowel to the end of the word.
Questions
- What rhymes with shortness?
- No common word rhymes perfectly with shortness. Near rhymes such as darkness, enormous, fortress, corpus and tortoise come closest.
- How many words rhyme with shortness?
- We found 0 common perfect rhymes for shortness, plus 33 near rhymes.
- How many syllables are in shortness?
- Shortness has two syllables, with the stress on the first.