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Words that rhyme withaverage

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 V
108
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
having3travel1travissavage1traveled1travels1tavern3gavingavel2gravel2savin2havoc1lavish1ravage1taverns1travelled1calvingcaverncavernedcavernsgavels2graveled2gravels2halvingHavelhavinshavocs1lavished1ravagedravelraveledravels
3 syllables
anchoragegravity3traveling1travelling2cavalry2cavity1lavender1scavengers2traveler2cadavers1javelin1mavericks1savages1travelers1traveller1travesty1unravel1unraveled1cadavercavalries2Cavendishcaverningcavernouscavitied
4 syllables
unraveling1depravitiesdepravityextravaganceextravagantnavigableribavirinribavirinstravestying1
5 syllables
extravagancesextravagantlyintravenously
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 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)
2 syllables
avid
3 syllables
avarice1avidly
4 syllables
avarices1

“average” at line end — from real songs

I tend to underestimate my averageJust another bastard savage
— Aesop Rock, “9-5ers Anthem” · rhymes average / savage
By no means averageFast when it comes to the gas
— Bill Withers, “No Diggity” · rhymes average / gas
The reason why I love you, you don't like me 'cause my statusI don't wanna see you with a carriage, living average
— Curtis Mayfield, “What You Want” · rhymes average / status

How to read the 108 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.

Assonance 108
Only the stressed vowel matches; the consonants after it are unrelated. Loose and open — useful when a section should stay unresolved.
Identity 4
The whole stressed syllable repeats, beginning included. That's repetition, not rhyme — the line echoes instead of resolving.