Rhyming dictionary
Words that rhyme with holy
Holy has 2 syllables. The first syllable is stressed. There are 8 perfect rhymes and 80 near rhymes below, grouped by syllables.
Top rhymes for holy: slowly, goalie, lowly, coli, coley, unholy, guacamole, ravioli.
Perfect rhymes for holy
82 syllables
- slowly
- goalie
- lowly
- coli
- coley
3 syllables
- unholy
4+ syllables
- guacamole
- ravioli
Near rhymes for holy
80Same vowel sound, different consonants. Closest-sounding first.
2 syllables
- only
- mostly
- closely
- lonely
- grossly
- homely
- moldy
- oldie
- grocery
- joey
- snowy
- showy
- doughy
- blowy
- tony
- pony
- cozy
- poultry
- phony
- stony
- boldly
- rosy
- bony
- ghostly
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- nosy
- crony
- coldly
- roadie
- mosey
- oldies
- throaty
- trophy
- groceries
- smoky
- smokey
- yogi
- bogey
- loci
- homey
- soapy
- dopey
- hokey
- pokey
- gnocchi
- folksy
- foamy
- loamy
- hoagie
- poky
- stogie
- towhee
- fogy
- protein
- ponies
- cronies
- phonemes
- nosebleed
- phoneme
- goldfield
- ponied
3 syllables
- remotely
- bologna
- baloney
- spumoni
- coyote
- anchovy
- adobe
- coyotes
- neuroses
- prognoses
4+ syllables
- macaroni
- pepperoni
- abalone
- minestrone
- rigatoni
- cannelloni
- karaoke
- diagnoses
- antipodes
- misdiagnoses
Sounds the same as holy
Rhyming holy with one of these is an identical rhyme; it can feel like repeating yourself.
- wholly
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Questions
- What rhymes with holy?
- The closest perfect rhymes for holy are slowly, goalie, lowly, coli, coley, unholy, guacamole and ravioli. There are 8 in all, grouped by syllables on this page.
- How many syllables are in holy?
- Holy has 2 syllables. The first syllable is stressed.
- What are some near rhymes for holy?
- Near rhymes keep the vowel sound but change the consonants, which is often what a lyric needs. For holy, try only, mostly, closely, lonely and grossly.
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Pronunciations from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (Carnegie Mellon University). Word frequency from wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0), word lists from SCOWL, offensive-word filtering from LDNOOBW (CC BY 4.0).