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Words that rhyme with fantasy — 147 rhymes by quality | Rhyme Land
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Words that rhyme withfantasy

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 N·T
147
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
Santa1granted4pantingauntieplanted2chantingpanties2frantic3mantle2antics1banter1canton1lanterns1santi1anteantedantesantianticantis
3 syllables
fallacyromantic3advantage2atlantic2Atlanta1enchanted2romantics1scantily1advantagedantigenantigensantingAntonyAtlantis
4 syllables
frantically1advantages2advantagingByzantiumdisadvantagedisadvantageddisenchanteddismantlement
5 syllables
disadvantagesdisadvantaging
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 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
phantom4phantoms1
3 syllables
fantasies2fantasied
4 syllables
fantasying4sycophantic

“fantasy” at line end — from real songs

I don't wanna be the owner of your fantasyI just wanna be a part of your family
— Adrianne Lenker, “anything” · rhymes fantasy / family
Between what's flesh and what's fantasyThey reach for their moment and try to make an honest stand
— Bruce Springsteen, “Jungleland” · rhymes fantasy / stand
Gonna drive to AtlantaAnd live out this fantasy
— Gillian Welch, “Look At Miss Ohio” · rhymes fantasy / atlanta

How to read the 147 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.

Assonance 147
Only the stressed vowel matches; the consonants after it are unrelated. Loose and open — useful when a section should stay unresolved.
Identity 6
The whole stressed syllable repeats, beginning included. That's repetition, not rhyme — the line echoes instead of resolving.