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Words that rhyme withevidence

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 V
2
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)
3 syllables
residence3precedence
149
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
heaven36never16devil9heavy11seven13level8clever4kevinheavens4levels1trevorseventhlever1devils3sever2severed2Devonbevelled1chevy1leaven1levees1levelled1bevelbeveledbevelsbeviesBevinbevinsbevychevies1crevicedeviled9heavies11kevinsleavened1leavens1leveeleveled8levered1levers1levied
3 syllables
decadence1whatever8whenever2wherever1heavily1reverend3eleven4heavenly4beverlyendeavor3reverie1leverage1reveries2brevity1daredevil1heavier1neverland1revelers1revelry1reverence1seventies1seventy1bedevilbedeviledbedevilsbevelingbeverageBeveridgebrevities1cleverlycleverness
4 syllables
benevolence1bedevilingbenevolentdevilishlydishevelingendeavoring3endeavouringirreverenceirreverentleverages1longevitieslongevitymalevolentmultilevelprevalences
5 syllables
inevitable1irrevocably1benevolences1inevitables1inevitablyirreverencesirrevocable
19
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
ever16evanevansevers1evered16evertsKiev
3 syllables
forever90every2however3whoever1evelynEverestevidencedevident
4 syllables
whatsoeverevidently2evidences5evidencing

“evidence” at line end — from real songs

And threw in the evidenceResequencing events
— Cass McCombs, “Brighter!” · rhymes evidence / events
And Let my actions become the evidenceTime to develop my replenishment
— Jason Isbell, “Clips” · rhymes evidence / replenishment
I must boil your blood because I can't leave evidenceI can't have a conscious that is decadence
— Jason Isbell, “Clips” · rhymes evidence / decadence

How to read the 151 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.

Family rhyme 2
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.
Assonance 149
Only the stressed vowel matches; the consonants after it are unrelated. Loose and open — useful when a section should stay unresolved.
Identity 19
The whole stressed syllable repeats, beginning included. That's repetition, not rhyme — the line echoes instead of resolving.