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Words that rhyme withconsequences

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 EH coda N·S
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 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
senses5fences3tenses1
3 syllables
expenses1commences2offenses1defenses1pretenses1condensesdefences3dispensesincensessuspenses
4 syllables
frankincensesinferencesrecompenses
5 syllables
biosciences
21
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
trenches1benchesclenchesdrenchesfrenchesmenschesquenchesstenchestencheswencheswrencheslenses2benzes6
3 syllables
entrenchesretrenchesworkbenchescredenzasavengesrevenges5
4 syllables
influenzas
80
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
dresses2edges1hedges1stretches1blesses1crechescressesdredgesetches
3 syllables
accessesaddresses9aggressesallegesantennas2assessescaresses3
4 syllables
acquiescescoalescesconvalescesdispossesses
176
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
exes1extras1feliz1belchesbellasdeltas2elsaselsesetnasflexes1hexesmeccas1nairasparassexes20squelchesteslastestas
3 syllables
agendas1annexesapexes1calderascandelascelestaschimerasduplexesfiestasmagentas1mascaras1novellasomegas
4 syllables
conciergescybersexeshaciendasmozzarellasmultiplexesoperettaspalometassalmonellasintensity1
5 syllables
6 syllables

“consequences” at line end — from real songs

"If it's love," She said"Then we've gonna have to think about the consequences"
— Counting Crows, “Anna Begins” · rhymes consequences / said
Through all your false pretensesIs all the consequences
— Lauryn Hill, “I Find It Hard to Say (Rebel)” · rhymes consequences / pretenses

How to read the 294 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 17
Same stressed vowel, same sounds after it, different beginning. Full resolution — the strongest closure a rhyme can give a line.
Family rhyme 21
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.
Subtractive 80
Same vowel, but one word stops a consonant early. A slightly clipped, softer resolution than perfect rhyme.
Assonance 176
Only the stressed vowel matches; the consonants after it are unrelated. Loose and open — useful when a section should stay unresolved.