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Words that rhyme withexactly

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 AE coda K·T·L
1
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
aptly
70
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
happy15valley16daddy6alley7badly1sally3maggieabby1jackiesadly1pattyrallygladly1madly3maddiecaddy2galley2sadie2tally1bally1blackie1cabbie1gabby1lackey1snappy1tacky1abbeabbeyAttleebaggybattyBradleycabbycaddiecattychallischattycrabbycraggycrappiecrappydallyfattyflabbyflatlyHalleylallymaddy
3 syllables
unhappy2finale1granddaddyiraqislaphappyverbally
4 syllables
Cincinnati1dillydally
5 syllables
immeasurablyinterminably
142
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
angry5carry1candy7fancy3danny1andy1taxi2nasty2annie2barryNancy2frankie1franklyrandyauntiesandy1sammy1Stanleyashleygrannybrandy5nanny1handy2cathy1daphneangiefanny1mannycassiekathymandydandy3pantry1acne1acme1alfie1algae1blankly1camry1Capri1crabtree1grammy1halsey1lassie1pansy1santi1taffy1amplyanteantiantsyASCIIashyassaybandyBarrieblandlybrassycadreCagneycampycannycantycatchychaffychancychassisclammyclassycraftycrankycrannydraftyflashyganglygantry
3 syllables
Miami1apache2chimpanzee1ChiantiComanchefianceesteadfastlyuncanny
4 syllables
Tallahassee1AnasaziAriadneefficacyintermarrynamby-pambynecromancyneuropathypakistanipolyandryprofligacyrhinoplastysatisfactorysuperfamilyvigilante
5 syllables
angioplastyhomeopathy
6 syllables
lymphadenopathy

“exactly” at line end — from real songs

I'm no flogging captainNot quite exactly
— Mark Knopfler, “Privateering” · rhymes exactly / captain

How to read the 213 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 1
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.
Subtractive 70
Same vowel, but one word stops a consonant early. A slightly clipped, softer resolution than perfect rhyme.
Assonance 142
Only the stressed vowel matches; the consonants after it are unrelated. Loose and open — useful when a section should stay unresolved.