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Words that rhyme withcoming

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 AH coda M
13
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
humming3strumming2drumming1dumbing1bummingcrumbing2gummingnumbing10plumbing1scummingslummingsummingthumbing9
15
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
running7stunning1cunning1bungingbunningdungingdunning1gunningpunningshunningsunningtonguing
3 syllables
outrunningrerunning
4 syllables
overrunning
50
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
something1hunting4gruntingjumping1thumping1stunting1blunting4brunching1bumping1bunching5bunking1buntingchunking1clumping
3 syllables
spelunking1affrontingconfrontingdebunkingexpungingrefunding
271
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
nothing1loving1puttingchucklingcuttingbuzzing1touching48judging1sucking1rushing1shuffling2trusting1bluffing1blushing1coupling1crusting1cussing1flooding1fussing1pulsing1rusting1skulking1stuffing1thrusting1blooding51brushing4bucking11bucklingbuddingbudgingbuffingbuggingbulgingbulkingbusing11buskingbussingbusting12butting6chuckingchuggingclubbingcluckingclutching6crushing8cubbingcuddlingcuffing2
3 syllables
disgusting1discussing1adjusting1conducting1abductingabuttingadjudgingbankrupting1begrudgingbloodsuckingcombustingconstructingconsultingcornhuskingcorrupting1debuggingdecouplingdeductingdestructing2disruptingdistrusting2divulgingencrustingengulfingentrustingeruptingexultinghandcuffing1humbuggingincrustinginductingindulginginstructinginsultingmisjudgingmistrusting1obstructingoccultingonrushing
4 syllables
interrupting2motherfucking2catapultingdeconstructingjitterbuggingoverstuffingreadjustingreconstructingself-destructingundercutting
5 syllables
multivitaminmultivitamins
26
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
come1
2 syllables
cumming1comercomerscomings25cummings1cumminsbecome17income1outcome2succumb
3 syllables
becoming2incoming1homecoming1shortcomings1succumbing1forthcomingnewcomernewcomersoncomingshortcoming
4 syllables
overcomingunbecoming

“coming” at line end — from real songs

And they don’t know when it’s comingKeep the car running
— Arcade Fire, “Keep the Car Running” · rhymes coming / running
They could see the thrashers comingAnd I was just getting up
— Neil Young, “Thrasher” · rhymes coming / up
In my old country way of strummingMan, I never heard it coming
— Guy Clark, “The Guitar” · rhymes coming / strumming

How to read the 348 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 13
Same stressed vowel, same sounds after it, different beginning. Full resolution — the strongest closure a rhyme can give a line.
Family rhyme 15
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 50
Same vowel, but one word carries an extra consonant after the shared ending. The added sound softens the landing slightly.
Assonance 270
Only the stressed vowel matches; the consonants after it are unrelated. Loose and open — useful when a section should stay unresolved.
Identity 25
The whole stressed syllable repeats, beginning included. That's repetition, not rhyme — the line echoes instead of resolving.