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Words that rhyme withbadly

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 D·L
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
sadly1gladly1madly3Bradley
6
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
AttleeflatlyscragglyShapley
5 syllables
immeasurablyinterminably
11
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
franklyblankly1amplyaptlyblandlyghastlygrandlylastlyvastly
3 syllables
exactly1steadfastly
59
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
happy15valley1daddy6alley7sally3maggieabby1jackiepattyrallymaddiecaddy2galley2sadie2tally1bally1blackie1cabbie1gabby1lackey1snappy1tacky1abbeabbeybaggybattycabbycaddiecattychallischattycrabbycraggycrappiecrappydallyfattyflabbyHalleylallymaddymatty
3 syllables
unhappy2finale1granddaddyiraqislaphappyverbally
4 syllables
Cincinnati1dillydally
134
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
angry5carry1candy7fancy3danny1andy1taxi2nasty2annie2barryNancy2frankie1randyauntiesandy1sammy1Stanleyashleygrannybrandy5nanny1handy2cathy1daphneangiefanny1mannycassiekathymandydandy3pantry1acne1acme1alfie1algae1camry1Capri1crabtree1grammy1halsey1lassie1pansy1santi1taffy1anteantiantsyASCIIashyassaybandyBarriebrassycadreCagneycampycannycantycatchychaffychancychassisclammyclassycraftycrankycrannydraftyflashyganglygantryglassy
3 syllables
Miami1apache2chimpanzee1ChiantiComanchefianceeuncanny
4 syllables
Tallahassee1AnasaziAriadneefficacyintermarrynamby-pambynecromancyneuropathypakistanipolyandryprofligacyrhinoplastysatisfactorysuperfamilyvigilante
5 syllables
angioplastyhomeopathy
6 syllables
lymphadenopathy

“badly” at line end — from real songs

She said she wanna be a dentist really badlyShe's in school payin' for tuition, doin' porn in the Valley
— Frank Ocean, “Novacane” · rhymes badly / valley

How to read the 214 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 6
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 11
Same vowel, but one word carries an extra consonant after the shared ending. The added sound softens the landing slightly.
Subtractive 59
Same vowel, but one word stops a consonant early. A slightly clipped, softer resolution than perfect rhyme.
Assonance 134
Only the stressed vowel matches; the consonants after it are unrelated. Loose and open — useful when a section should stay unresolved.