Shortages rhymes with:
hostages, voltages, bandages, cartridges, damages, forages, homages, hostages, images, languages, messages, mortgages, packages, passages, plumages, privileges, savages, tonnages, usages, villages, voltages, voyages
Shortages sounds like:
saratoga, sardas, sauerteig, saugerties, schartz, schertz, schwartz, scortese, scratch, scratches, scratchy, secord's, secrets, securities, securities', securitize, security's, sertich, seward's, shards, sherwood's, shirts, shortage, shortcake, shorts, shorts', shortz, shortz', shortz's, shreds, shrouds, shurtz, sirowitz, skirts, socrates, socratic, sororities, sorties, sorts, sowards, squirts, suharto's, surat's, surtax, surtaxes, swarts, swartz, swords