Quantcast
Words that rhyme with cover — 239 rhymes by quality | Rhyme Land
RhymeLand

the rhymes and the songs that used them

Words that rhyme withcover

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 V
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
lover2hover1plover1shover
mosaic rhyme
love her10of her7
24
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
other42mother3brother29buzzersmothersouthersuffer5tougher1blufferbufferdufferpuffersnufferstufferusher1crusher
3 syllables
another40grandmother1godmotherstepmother
45
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
culture1structure3buster1sculpture1youngster1luster1ulcer1vulture1blusterbusker
3 syllables
adjusterblockbusterlacklusterrestructuresubculture
4 syllables
acupunctureagricultureaquaculturecounterculturefilibuster
mosaic rhyme
of your3of there2love there1
166
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
wonder25under15summer1number6color6thunder8younger3hunter5butter6hunger6colour2supper2upperrubber1sucker2butler1gutter7slumber4tucker2bummer4bugger1drummer3mutter3shudder2stutter3shutterDumpster2flutter1gunner1bunker1cutter1dumber1hummer1jumper1plunder1pucker1slugger1stunner1vulgar1mulderblubberblunderBrucknerBuchnerbumperbunglercluttercomercouplercumbercutlerdumperdunkerhuggerHumberhunkerJunkerlubberlumberlumperlungermonger
3 syllables
asunder2bloodsucker1midsummer1abductorafluttercocksuckerconductordiscolorencumberforerunnergunrunnerheadhunterinductorinstructornewcomeroutnumberroadrunnerspelunkerstonecuttergovernment2discovered1governor1lovingly1lovable1discovers6governancegovernessgoverninggovernments2governors1hovering1lovageslovering32slovenly
4 syllables
motherfucker12technicolor1kilometremulticolorwatercolordiscoverydiscovererdiscoverersdiscoveriesdiscovering6governancesmisgovernmentmisgovernmentsrediscoveredrediscoversself-governingself-governmentslovenlinessundiscovered
5 syllables
semiconductordiscoverablerediscoveringungovernable
35
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)
2 syllables
covered1covers8covet2covens1covencovets2coveycoveys
3 syllables
discover6recover6covering9recovered1covenant1covenants1Coventrycoveragecoverings
4 syllables
undercover1recovering1undercovers1covenanted1covenanting1coverages
5 syllables
recoverable

“cover” at line end — from real songs

A queen of hearts, now a motherWhere is the replacement for the world's front cover?
— Black Box Recorder, “The New Diana” · rhymes cover / mother
Run away, go find a loverYou deserve the deepest of cover
— Tom Petty, “Wildflowers” · rhymes cover / lover
And see, people are books, so you judge a motherfucker by the first page, and a…But the crime long-sleeved, so the tats covered
— Earl Sweatshirt, “New Faces v2” · rhymes cover / covered

How to read the 239 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 24
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 45
Same vowel, but one word carries an extra consonant after the shared ending. The added sound softens the landing slightly.
Assonance 166
Only the stressed vowel matches; the consonants after it are unrelated. Loose and open — useful when a section should stay unresolved.
Identity 35
The whole stressed syllable repeats, beginning included. That's repetition, not rhyme — the line echoes instead of resolving.