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Words that rhyme withasking

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·K
4
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
tasking1basking1masking6
3 syllables
unmasking
31
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
gasping1blasting1grasping1casting9clasping2crafting2drafting1draughtingfasting81
3 syllables
newscasting1broadcastingcontrasting1forecasting1handcraftingmiscastingoutlasting
4 syllables
everlasting3flabbergastingovercasting1overdrafting
199
What it is
  1. The syllables' vowel sounds are identical.
  2. The sounds after the vowels are identical, but one side stops one consonant earlier.
  3. The syllables begin differently.
How it feels
  1. Perfect
  2. Family
  3. Additive / Subtractive
  4. Assonance
  5. Consonance
resolvedunresolved
Example

cried / cry — one side missing the final D

Source
Berklee College of Music's songwriting method (Pat Pattison)
2 syllables
laughing8passing8having3catching1crashing2tracking35packing2cracking1flashing3draggingclapping2flapping2smashing1backing310bragging1catting1lacking1rapping1scratching1slapping1slashing1smacking1splashing1thrashing1trapping1wrapping1
3 syllables
kidnappingattacking1abashingamassingattaching1backlashingbackpacking3backslappingbacktracking1blackjackingbootstrappingbushwhackingbypassingcarjackingcatnappingchitchattingcombatingcombattingdetaching
4 syllables
autographing2copycattinghandicappinghectographinglithographingoverlappingparagraphingphotographing7piggybackingquarterbackingtelegraphing
5 syllables
counterattackingmimeographing
236
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
dancing8standing6acting3hanging4planninglanding5pantingbanging9chantinghandlingrattling2camping5crackling2ranking1rambling1grambling1Lansing1manning1prancing1slamming1tanning1anding41anglingbanding59banking14banningblanchingblanding1blanking2branching2branding1branningcanningcantingchamping2chancingchanning
3 syllables
outstanding1collapsing3demanding1romancing1adapting1advancing1financing1relaxing1withstanding1abstracting1attracting2backhandingcanallingclimaxingcommanding11contacting5corrallingdecampingdecantingdetractingdiffractingdisbanding1distracting1elapsingenactingencampingenchantingenhancingentangling
4 syllables
understanding3anagrammingavalanchingboomeranging1caravanningcounteractingdiagramingdiagramminginteractingnotwithstandingoveractingoverhangingovertaxingreenactingrefinancingreprimandingsubcontractingMadagascar
5 syllables
misunderstanding1overreacting1
7
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
ask17
2 syllables
ASCIIaskeraskers
3 syllables
fiascofiascoesfiascos

“asking” at line end — from real songs

“Why you keep me testing, keep me tasking?”You keep on asking
— Lou Reed, “Risingson” · rhymes asking / tasking
Where nothing's wrong and no one's askingBut the fear's so strong it leaves you gasping
— Purple Mountains, “All My Happiness Is Gone” · rhymes asking / gasping
Andrew Jackson, all I'm askingRaise the banner, Jackson hammer
— Sufjan Stevens, “Jacksonville” · rhymes asking / hammer

How to read the 470 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 4
Same stressed vowel, same sounds after it, different beginning. Full resolution — the strongest closure a rhyme can give a line.
Family rhyme 31
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.
Subtractive 199
Same vowel, but one word stops a consonant early. A slightly clipped, softer resolution than perfect rhyme.
Assonance 236
Only the stressed vowel matches; the consonants after it are unrelated. Loose and open — useful when a section should stay unresolved.
Identity 7
The whole stressed syllable repeats, beginning included. That's repetition, not rhyme — the line echoes instead of resolving.