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Words that rhyme withduty

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 UW coda T
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
beauty1booty1bootie1cutiefruitysnootysooty
3 syllables
Djibouti
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
judy3rudy1rudi2broodyfoodiemoodytrudyloopy1whoopi1droopygroupiekookysnoopysoupyspookyruby2boogie2dougie1scooby1
4 syllables
boogie-woogie
12
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
cruelty2ChukchicrudelyrooftreerudelyshrewdlyTutsi
3 syllables
acutelyastutely
4 syllables
absolutely1Paderewskiresolutely
mosaic rhyme
shoot me3suit me1
10
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
buoy1lui1shui1chewyDeweydewygooeyhooeyscrewy
3 syllables
ennui1
273
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
movie7truly4Lucy2juliesusie3coochie3groovy3poorly1choosy1gloomy2goofy1loosely1cooley1doozy1fuji1gucci1juicy1rooney1Sunni1boozycoollycruellydulygooseyhugelyJewrylooneyloonyMoonienewlynewsypunyPuseyroomysmoothlysushitoothyUziwoozyZunishooting1outtashooter2brutal1
3 syllables
lazuli1unruly1BaluchiBernoulliCarducciNoguchiprofuselyundulybeautiful11computer1computers1suitable1beautifully1cuticle1commuter1mutiny1brutallycommutedcommuters1commutingcomputedcomputingcuticles1diluteddilutingdisputeddisputingGutenbergimputedimputingMaputomutablemutagen
4 syllables
BertolucciChattahoocheeprosecutorexecutedconvoluted1inscrutable1rutabaga1absolutistabsolutistsaccoutermentaccoutermentsaccoutrementaccoutrementsalbuterolalbuterolsconstitutedconstitutingconvolutingdisputableexecutinghighfalutin
5 syllables
electrocutedelectrocuting
6 syllables
3
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
duties5
3 syllables
dutiful
4 syllables
dutifully

“duty” at line end — from real songs

Ain't no way for me to love youI know that a woman's duty
— Aretha Franklin, “Ain’t No Way” · rhymes duty / you
Use Me was included on Bill Withers‘ 1972 album Still Bill. It was his second-b…I, I, I, yes, I want to spread the news
— Bill Withers, “Use Me” · rhymes duty / news
From Olympic heavy dutyWe both needed so much soothing
— Bon Iver, “AWARDS SEASON” · rhymes duty / soothing

How to read the 325 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.
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 12
Same vowel, but one word carries an extra consonant after the shared ending. The added sound softens the landing slightly.
Subtractive 10
Same vowel, but one word stops a consonant early. A slightly clipped, softer resolution than perfect rhyme.
Assonance 273
Only the stressed vowel matches; the consonants after it are unrelated. Loose and open — useful when a section should stay unresolved.
Identity 3
The whole stressed syllable repeats, beginning included. That's repetition, not rhyme — the line echoes instead of resolving.