Quantcast
Words that rhyme with dakota — 251 rhymes by quality | Rhyme Land
RhymeLand

the rhymes and the songs that used them

Words that rhyme withdakota

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 OW coda T
6
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
quota1rota1
3 syllables
iota1Toyota1
4 syllables
Minnesota1Sarasota
mosaic rhyme
go to3
22
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
soda2coda1rhoda1Todaloca1cocadopamochaokayoga1
3 syllables
pagodasvobodaEuropacordoba
4 syllables
cariocaFukuokaMaricopasaratoga1ConestogaManitoba
5 syllables
8
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
cobra3oprah1Volta1copraokraolga
3 syllables
travolta1Isolde
mosaic rhyme
coat youwrote younote youquote you
7
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
Noah1boa1GoaNOAA
3 syllables
Samoa1balboaOchoa
208
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
coma2Rosasofa2lola1Mona2cola2loma1scotia1bolaDonaGomaholajonahkronakronemolanovaolaOSHAshonasojastomastromaXhosaZolazonanotice4noticed1photo3totalmotive1floating1motor2voted1votingOtis2brodie1Kyoto1lotus1potent1
3 syllables
fiona1corona2magnolia1pneumonia1ammonia1daytona1persona1ambrosiaAngolaaromabegoniablastomacanolaCoppolaCordovacupolaEbolaFormosaglaucomagranolaHizbollahJehovahkimonoLatonaLivoniaLoyolalymphomamimosaMoldovamucosapayola
4 syllables
Arizona2Oklahoma1Barcelona2Catalonia1motorola1supernova1villanova1AgricolaayatollahcarcinomagorgonzolaHispaniolamariposamelanomapapillomaPensacolaponderosa
5 syllables
Navratilova
6 syllables
Apalachicolamesotheliomaretinoblastoma
25
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
coat26cote
2 syllables
coated26coating26coatingskotaskotokotoesraincoat1dovecote
3 syllables
coteriecoteriesdakotas3Lakotalakotasuncoated
4 syllables
overcoating2petticoated3undercoatedundercoating

“dakota” at line end — from real songs

I got the number of some girl in North DakotaAnd I got my seven-million dollar home
— Counting Crows, “August And Everything After” · rhymes dakota / home
They don't hatch in South DakotaHere comes the coda
— Silver Jews, “Federal Dust” · rhymes dakota / coda
Reno DakotaThere's not an iota
— The Magnetic Fields, “Reno Dakota” · rhymes dakota / iota

How to read the 251 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 6
Same stressed vowel, same sounds after it, different beginning. Full resolution — the strongest closure a rhyme can give a line.
Family rhyme 22
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 8
Same vowel, but one word carries an extra consonant after the shared ending. The added sound softens the landing slightly.
Subtractive 7
Same vowel, but one word stops a consonant early. A slightly clipped, softer resolution than perfect rhyme.
Assonance 208
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.