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Words that rhyme withacid

feminine
Masculine

Ends on a stressed syllable — a one-syllable rhyme, or a multisyllable word whose primary stress lands last. The rhyme hits the final beat, the way most rhymes in songs do.

Examples

love · dove · today · believe · forgot

Feminine this word

Ends with an unstressed syllable trailing the stressed one — always at least two syllables. The rhyme lands a beat earlier and trails off softly.

Examples

river · mother · follow · breaking · mountain

Masculine and feminine endings rarely sing together (the rhyme lands on a different beat), so they're kept apart here.

 vowel AE coda S
2
What it is
  1. The syllables' vowel sounds are identical.
  2. The sounds after the vowels (if any) are identical.
  3. The syllables begin differently.
How it feels
  1. Perfect
  2. Family
  3. Additive / Subtractive
  4. Assonance
  5. Consonance
resolvedunresolved
Example

cat / hat — same AE vowel, same T ending

Source
Berklee College of Music's songwriting method (Pat Pattison)
2 syllables
placid
3 syllables
antacid
2
What it is
  1. The syllables' vowel sounds are identical.
  2. The sounds after the vowels come from the same phonetic family (e.g. T↔D, P↔B, M↔N).
  3. The syllables begin differently.
How it feels
  1. Perfect
  2. Family
  3. Additive / Subtractive
  4. Assonance
  5. Consonance
resolvedunresolved
Example

cat / pad — AE vowel; T and D are both stops

Family chart
PlosivesFricativesNasals
VoicedbdgvTHzzhjmnng
Unvoicedptkfthsshch

Each column is a family pair — same place + manner, only the voicing differs.

Source
Berklee College of Music's songwriting method (Pat Pattison)
2 syllables
aphidavid
22
What it is
  1. The syllables' vowel sounds are identical.
  2. The sounds after the vowels are identical, with one extra consonant on one side.
  3. The syllables begin differently.
How it feels
  1. Perfect
  2. Family
  3. Additive / Subtractive
  4. Assonance
  5. Consonance
resolvedunresolved
Example

love / loved — extra D on one side

Source
Berklee College of Music's songwriting method (Pat Pattison)
2 syllables
Alfredlasted1blasted2rancid1crafted2drafted1draughtedfasted81flaccidgraftedmasted2
3 syllables
forecasted1contrasted1diapsidhandcraftedlambastedoutlastedredraftedsandblasted
4 syllables
flabbergasted
289
What it is
  1. The syllables' vowel sounds are the same.
  2. The consonants after the vowel are not phonetically related.
  3. The syllables begin differently.
How it feels
  1. Perfect
  2. Family
  3. Additive / Subtractive
  4. Assonance
  5. Consonance
resolvedunresolved
Example

love / dot — both AH, but V and T have nothing in common

Assonance rhymes always have consonants after the vowels, but the consonants cannot be phonetically related.

Source
Berklee College of Music's songwriting method (Pat Pattison)
2 syllables
granted4salad4landed4handed3planted2added3acted11ballad3stranded2candid1matted1rabid1ragged1valid1acridantedaridbanded59battedbraddedbranded1cantedcattedchantedchattedfattedgaddedgared1hattedlanguidpaddedpallidpantedpattedrantedrapidrattedsanded47scantedscattedslantedslattedspattedsplattedTalmudtattedvapidvattedpassing8
3 syllables
attracted2distracted1contacted5enchanted2redacted1remanded1abstracted1adaptedarachnidbackhandedchitchattedcommanded11compacteddecanteddemanded4detracteddiffracteddisbanded1enactedexacted1expanded1extractedforehandedformattedfreehandedimpactedimplantedleft-handedlevantedMohammedoffhandedprotractedreacted4recantedred-handedreplantedretracted
4 syllables
counteracteddisenchantedempty-handedevenhandedinteractedoveractedreenactedreprimandedsingle-handedthermostattedunderhandedambassador1capacity1overpasses1Tallahassee1ambassadors1ambassadressaudacitiesaudacitycapacitancecapacities1capacitorcapacitorsefficacies
5 syllables
overreacted1capacitances
18
What it is
  1. The syllables' vowel sounds are identical.
  2. The sounds after the vowels (if any) are identical.
  3. The syllables begin the same — repetition, not a rhyme.
How it feels

Off the rhyme scale — identity is repetition, not resolution. Shown so you can spot it, not reach for it.

Example

fuse / confuse — both stressed syllables are 'fuse'

Source
Berklee College of Music's songwriting method (Pat Pattison)
1 syllable
ass38
2 syllables
asses6acids4assayharassmorass
3 syllables
Asimovassayingharasserharassersharassesharassingmorasses
4 syllables
veracitiesveracityvoracitiesvoracity
5 syllables
inaccuracies

“acid” at line end — from real songs

Yeah, on my tongue where the tab is, and it burn like battery acidBy the kid havin' asthma attacks 'cause he panicked every single time he sat on…
— Curtis Mayfield, “Ascension” · rhymes acid / glasses
Mixed with the weed and the pills and the acidMixed with the greed and the guns and the havoc
— Elliott Smith, “The Worlds Ending” · rhymes acid / havoc
And the cider's laced with acidAh we're lonely, we're romantic
— Leonard Cohen, “Closing Time” · rhymes acid / romantic

How to read the 315 results

Tiers follow Pat Pattison's stability scale — pick the resolution your line needs, not just the closest sound. Bold words are common in lyrics; a struck-through word with a cliché flag is an overworked pair; a vermilion dot counts how often the pair appears at line end in our corpus of real songs.

Perfect rhyme 2
Same stressed vowel, same sounds after it, different beginning. Full resolution — the strongest closure a rhyme can give a line.
Family rhyme 2
The consonants after the vowel are swapped for phonetic siblings — T↔D, M↔N, S↔Z. Nearly as stable as perfect rhyme, with far more word choices.
Additive 22
Same vowel, but one word carries an extra consonant after the shared ending. The added sound softens the landing slightly.
Assonance 289
Only the stressed vowel matches; the consonants after it are unrelated. Loose and open — useful when a section should stay unresolved.
Identity 18
The whole stressed syllable repeats, beginning included. That's repetition, not rhyme — the line echoes instead of resolving.