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Words that rhyme witheven

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 IY coda V
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 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
stevenStephen
3 syllables
uneven1
32
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
reason32season10regiontreason6heathen1legionlesionethangrecian
3 syllables
adhesionartesianbedizencartesiancohesioncollegiannorwegian
4 syllables
indonesianmelanesianpolynesian
5 syllables
peloponnesian
6
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
chieftainEastmanNielsenseedsman
3 syllables
policeman1policemen
29
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
ianeonpaeanpeon
3 syllables
koreanachaeanaegeanASEANbooleanfustianlibyanplebeianprotean
4 syllables
europeanlibrarian1cyclopeaneritreangalilean
5 syllables
epicurean
6 syllables
indo-european
157
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
demon3eaten1beaten2Eden2semen3beacon1daemon1freeman1rican1Sweden1weaken1BenincheapencretindeacondeepenelanfreedmanFriedanFriedmanKeatonreninRiemannseamansequinSetonsteelmansweetenTetonwheatenZeemanleaving1fever7
3 syllables
MohicanSanhedrinunbeatenbelieving8previousbeliever4receiving1believers3deceiving4geneva2receiver2conceiving1receivers1relieving1retriever1achieverachieversachievingaggrievingbeaveringCheviotscleavagesdeviancedeviantdeviantsdevious
4 syllables
cotyledonmozambicanoctahedronpolyhedrontetrahedronpreviouslynonbeliever1achievablealleviatesbelievableconceivableconceivablydeviancesdisbelievinginterleaving
5 syllables
unbelievable2inconceivable
12
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
eve4
2 syllables
evil11evened5evens5evils11ivaivasnaive4bereave
3 syllables
bereaving1evenly1evenness

“even” at line end — from real songs

Well the train is loaded and leavingBut it's never enough to get even
— Dr. Dog, “Lonesome” · rhymes even / leaving
A trail looks evenRising with ease
— Men I Trust, “Again” · rhymes even / ease
I'm calling you weakGetting even
— PJ Harvey, “Rub ’til It Bleeds” · rhymes even / weak

How to read the 227 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 3
Same stressed vowel, same sounds after it, different beginning. Full resolution — the strongest closure a rhyme can give a line.
Family rhyme 32
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 6
Same vowel, but one word carries an extra consonant after the shared ending. The added sound softens the landing slightly.
Subtractive 29
Same vowel, but one word stops a consonant early. A slightly clipped, softer resolution than perfect rhyme.
Assonance 157
Only the stressed vowel matches; the consonants after it are unrelated. Loose and open — useful when a section should stay unresolved.
Identity 12
The whole stressed syllable repeats, beginning included. That's repetition, not rhyme — the line echoes instead of resolving.