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Words that rhyme with borrow — 208 rhymes by quality | Rhyme Land
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Words that rhyme withborrow

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 AA coda R
8
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
sorrow3aro1claromorrowyarrow
3 syllables
tomorrow9Pizarro
5 syllables
Kilimanjaro
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
marcocargocarlo1bardo1Fargo1Harlow1narco1arcoArgoArnoBarstowGarboHarpolargo
3 syllables
Ricardo1embargoescargotSuhartoSukarno
4 syllables
Leonardo
178
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
follow13also2swallow9bravo1hollow10Moscowpablo1autoottolotto4bronco2motto2wallow2balto1calo1condo1grotto1mambo1mano1Oslo1tonto1waldo1AaltoboffobongocapocombocongocrossbowdalogonzoguanohollohonchoHondollanolongbowmachomakooxbowPavoponchopronto
3 syllables
Chicago2bravado2morocco1Picasso1Apollo1cyrano1Dorado1Gestapo1legato1soprano1staccato1AlonsobonoboChicanogazpachogitanoguanacoIagoMankatomikadoMilanomulattoNaganorisottoTorontovibratoviragomario1aryan1atari1Guevara1lazare1tiaras1
4 syllables
Colorado3desperado1antipastoavocadoeldoradoGallianoMarcianoMexicanoostinatoSantiagocalamaricalamariscaracaracaracarascarbonaracarbonaras
5 syllables
americano1napoletano1aficionadocategoricalcategorically
6 syllables
incommunicado
24
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
bar54
2 syllables
Baribarisbarringbarringsborrows12Babar1crowbar1lumbar1disbarsandbarsidebar
3 syllables
barrio1borrowerborrowersborrowing12borrowingsdisbarringMubarakescobar2

“borrow” at line end — from real songs

Fame (Fame), what you get is no tomorrowFame (Fame), what you need, you have to borrow
— David Bowie, “Fame” · rhymes borrow / tomorrow
You steal things you ought to borrowI'd rather breathe than drown in sorrow
— Ray LaMontagne, “A Falling Through” · rhymes borrow / sorrow

How to read the 208 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 8
Same stressed vowel, same sounds after it, different beginning. Full resolution — the strongest closure a rhyme can give a line.
Additive 22
Same vowel, but one word carries an extra consonant after the shared ending. The added sound softens the landing slightly.
Assonance 178
Only the stressed vowel matches; the consonants after it are unrelated. Loose and open — useful when a section should stay unresolved.
Identity 24
The whole stressed syllable repeats, beginning included. That's repetition, not rhyme — the line echoes instead of resolving.