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Words That Rhyme With Primary

168 words rhyme with PRIMARY in our list, including 95 everyday words like ADVERSARY, AIRY, ARBITRARY, BENEFICIARY. PRIMARY has 3 syllables. The rhyming sound is most often spelled -ARY, -RRY, -ERY, -IRY.

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Two-syllable words that rhyme with primary (34)

Everyday words first.

  • airy
  • berry
  • bury
  • carry
  • cherry
  • dairy
  • fairy
  • ferry
  • hairy
  • harry
  • marry
  • merry
  • prairie
  • scary
  • sherry
  • tarry
  • vary
  • very
  • wary
  • aerie
  • ary
  • barre
  • clary
  • derry
  • eyrie
  • jerry
  • kerry
  • nary
  • parry
  • perry
  • skerry
  • terry
  • verry
  • wherry

Three-syllable words that rhyme with primary (18)

Everyday words first.

  • blackberry
  • blueberry
  • canary
  • contrary
  • cranberry
  • raspberry
  • rosemary
  • strawberry
  • unwary
  • dewberry
  • dogberry
  • glengarry
  • gooseberry
  • hackberry
  • mulberry
  • remarry
  • seaberry
  • tilbury

Four-syllable words that rhyme with primary (68)

Everyday words first.

  • adversary
  • arbitrary
  • capillary
  • cemetery
  • commentary
  • corollary
  • coronary
  • culinary
  • customary
  • dictionary
  • dietary
  • dignitary
  • dispensary
  • dysentery
  • emissary
  • fragmentary
  • honorary
  • legendary
  • literary
  • luminary
  • mercenary
  • military
  • missionary
  • momentary
  • monastery
  • monetary
  • mortuary
  • necessary
  • ordinary
  • planetary
  • pulmonary
  • sanctuary
  • sanitary
  • savagery
  • secondary
  • secretary
  • sedentary
  • seminary
  • solitary
  • stationary
  • stationery
  • temporary
  • tributary
  • veterinary
  • visionary
  • ancillary
  • aviary
  • budgetary
  • canterbury
  • cassowary
  • cautionary
  • centenary
  • cometary
  • commissary
  • dromedary
  • estuary
  • formulary
  • functionary
  • funerary
  • huckleberry
  • lapidary
  • quaternary
  • salutary
  • statuary
  • tertiary
  • topiary
  • unitary
  • urinary

Five-syllable words that rhyme with primary (35)

Everyday words first.

  • contemporary
  • disciplinary
  • discretionary
  • hereditary
  • imaginary
  • inflationary
  • involuntary
  • itinerary
  • judiciary
  • obituary
  • preliminary
  • proprietary
  • reactionary
  • subsidiary
  • unnecessary
  • unsanitary
  • vocabulary
  • apothecary
  • bicentenary
  • concessionary
  • confectionary
  • confectionery
  • constabulary
  • deflationary
  • depositary
  • diversionary
  • epistolary
  • exclusionary
  • expansionary
  • fiduciary
  • illusionary
  • nonmilitary
  • pecuniary
  • pituitary
  • recessionary

6-syllable words that rhyme with primary (12)

Everyday words first.

  • beneficiary
  • evolutionary
  • extraordinary
  • interplanetary
  • revolutionary
  • disinflationary
  • eleemosynary
  • expeditionary
  • noninflationary
  • paramilitary
  • semilegendary
  • undersecretary

7-syllable words that rhyme with primary (1)

Everyday words first.

  • cardiopulmonary

Near rhymes for primary

Words that end with a similar sound. They’re looser than perfect rhymes but often sound great in songs and poems.

  • incendiary
  • auxiliary
  • intermediary
  • precautionary
  • voluntary
  • belfry
  • biochemistry
  • chemistry
  • complementary
  • dentistry
  • elementary
  • entry
  • every
  • gentry
  • pedantry
  • pedigree
  • pleasantry
  • registry
  • revelry
  • sentry
  • supplementary
  • weaponry
  • allegory
  • ancestry
  • angry
  • artistry
  • asymmetry
  • auditory
  • bigotry
  • bleary
  • boundary
  • carpentry
  • evidentiary
  • contractionary
  • geochemistry
  • helotry
  • henry
  • heraldry
  • maestri
  • peasantry
  • penury
  • sweltry
  • telemetry
  • zealotry
  • accusatory
  • admonitory
  • aleatory
  • altimetry
  • ambulatory
  • anticipatory
  • apriori
  • articulatory
  • banditry
  • baptistery
  • basketry
  • beery
  • cabinetry
  • cacciatore
  • cadre
  • calamari

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