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Words that rhyme withfooling

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 L
15
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
drooling1cooling1fueling1schooling1dueling1fuellingpooling20rulingspoolingstooling4tooling3
3 syllables
retoolingwhirlpooling
4 syllables
overrulingridiculing
2
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
googlinggoulding
62
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
doing11screwing1blueing160bluingbooing6brewing3chewing2cluingcooing2
3 syllables
undoing2pursuing1accruingcanoeingconstruingcorkscrewing1cuckooing4
4 syllables
ballyhooingbarbecueing4barbecuingbarbequeing
268
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
moving13losing2using3shooting1choosing1soothing4blooming1booming1brooding1grooving1looming1proving1swooning1boobingboostingbooting8boozingbrooching1brooming5bruisingbrutingchutingcrooning1cruisingcubingdooming7douchingdroopingduesing7dukingdupingdusingfeuding
3 syllables
includingassuming1confusing2amusingaccusingconsuming1abusing1improving1marooning1alludingapprovingattuningballooning7behoovingbemusingcartooning1cocooning2colludingcommuningcommutingcomputingconcludingcostumingdeducingdefusingdeluding
4 syllables
bulletproofing1centrifugingconstitutingconvolutingdisabusingdisapprovingexecutingfireproofinghoneymooning6institutinginterludingintroducingovershootingoverusingparachuting
5 syllables
electrocutingoverproducing
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)
1 syllable
fool53
2 syllables
foolish1
3 syllables
foolishness1fooleriesfooleryfoolishly

“fooling” at line end — from real songs

(You belong to me) Tell her, tell her you were fooling(You belong to me) Tell her that I love you
— Carly Simon, “You Belong to Me” · rhymes fooling / you
You've been on my mind, though it may seem I'm fooling (You've been on my mind,…What are we gonna do? What are we gonna do about it? (What are we gonna do)
— Rufus Wainwright, “Another Believer” · rhymes fooling / do
And the newspapers were foolingAnd the box-office is drooling
— Tom Waits, “The Piano Has Been Drinking” · rhymes fooling / drooling

How to read the 347 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 15
Same stressed vowel, same sounds after it, different beginning. Full resolution — the strongest closure a rhyme can give a line.
Additive 2
Same vowel, but one word carries an extra consonant after the shared ending. The added sound softens the landing slightly.
Subtractive 62
Same vowel, but one word stops a consonant early. A slightly clipped, softer resolution than perfect rhyme.
Assonance 268
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.