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Words that rhyme withchanges

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 EY coda N·JH
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
granges1mangesranges10
3 syllables
arranges1derangesestranges
4 syllables
prearrangesrearranges1
124
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
faces36places30ages7cases1pages7traces3races3cages4laces5wages3stages4graces4praises1spaces3phrases1rages2aces1blazes1crazes1mazes1phases1baizes
3 syllables
suitcases2debases1embraces1shoelaces1acaciasairspacesamazesaphasiasappraisesassuagesatlases1backstages2birthplacesboldfacesbookcasesbriefcasesdefaces
4 syllables
aerospacescommonplacescyberspaces1databasesdisengageseuthanasiasfireplaces1interfacesinterlacesmacrophagesmarketplaces4
5 syllables
49
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
betasdatas3galas1selvasthetas1traipseszetasstranger28angel8danger1strangers3
3 syllables
abasiasazaleascicadaspesetasregalias1resedas2dangerous6archangel
4 syllables
anaplasiasbacchanaliasdangerously1rearranging1
5 syllables
paraphernalias
17
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
change1
2 syllables
changing6changer1changers1exchange5
3 syllables
changeable3exchangerexchangersexchanges5exchangingunchanginginterchange
4 syllables
exchangeableinterchangesinterchanging
5 syllables
interchangeableinterchangeably

“changes” at line end — from real songs

Living in the wake of overwhelming changesWe've all become strangers
— Weyes Blood, “It’s Not Just Me, It’s Everybody” · rhymes changes / strangers
You make the changesBut I no longer know how to pray
— Counting Crows, “August And Everything After” · rhymes changes / pray
And it says that the best part of a bad day is knowing it's okayThe color of everything changes
— Counting Crows, “Possibility Days” · rhymes changes / okay

How to read the 181 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.
Subtractive 124
Same vowel, but one word stops a consonant early. A slightly clipped, softer resolution than perfect rhyme.
Assonance 49
Only the stressed vowel matches; the consonants after it are unrelated. Loose and open — useful when a section should stay unresolved.
Identity 17
The whole stressed syllable repeats, beginning included. That's repetition, not rhyme — the line echoes instead of resolving.