Rhyming dictionary

Words that rhyme with “hurt”

“hurt” has 17 perfect rhymes in this list, from 1 to 2 syllables. The most common are shirt, dirt, and skirt. For a softer sound there are 40 near rhymes too, such as girl, world, and heard. The two example lines rhyme “hurt” with “dirt” and “shirt”.

Perfect rhymes

Perfect rhymes repeat every sound from the stressed vowel to the end of the word.

1 syllable

  • shirt
  • dirt
  • skirt
  • flirt
  • squirt
  • spurt
  • blurt

2 syllables

  • alert
  • dessert
  • insert
  • divert
  • exert
  • assert
  • avert
  • revert
  • inert
  • overt

Near rhymes (same vowel sound)

Near rhymes keep the vowel sound and change the consonants: softer, and there are many more of them.

  • girl
  • world
  • heard
  • turn
  • word
  • girls
  • earth
  • words
  • worked
  • return
  • turned
  • learn
  • worth
  • works
  • worse
  • church
  • third
  • search
  • worst
  • turns
  • learned
  • burn
  • bird
  • deserve
  • serve
  • nurse
  • concerned
  • research
  • hurts
  • prefer
  • birth
  • birds
  • returned
  • per
  • terms
  • jerk
  • firm
  • concern
  • burned
  • monsieur

“hurt” in a lyric: two examples

I wiped out on my skateboard in the dirt,
and only my pride really got hurt.

You gave me back my favorite flannel shirt,
folded and washed. Somehow that's what hurt.

Lines written for this page. Use them as a starting point, not as a finished verse.

How to choose the rhyme

  • Say the line out loud before you choose: the rhyme has to land on the beat where the melody stresses it.
  • Rhymes of 1 syllable (shirt, dirt, and skirt) close a line hard; those of 2 syllables (alert and dessert) stretch it and soften it. Match them to what the line is saying.
  • If every perfect rhyme for “hurt” sounds forced, move “hurt” inside the line and end it on another word.