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Words that rhyme withfrightened

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 AY coda T
7
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
tightened1brightenedheightenedlightenedwhitened
3 syllables
enlightened1
4 syllables
unenlightened
mosaic rhyme
night and2right and1white and1tight and1
4
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
widenedlikenedripened1stipend
236
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
island14diamond5siphoned1highlandhyphenedIcelandlivenedStreisandsyphonedwizenedfighting6writing1writer2title2mighty3fighter1lighter3itemvitalitemslighting1fighters1brighter3tighter3writers1slightestbiting1brightest1tighten1titles1bightedbightingbiterbitersblightedblighting
3 syllables
enlivenedexcited4invited1united1exciting1subtitlesdelighted14almighty1entitled1inviting1typewriter1incited1indicted1songwriter1vitamin1vitamins1alighting4arthritisbackbitingbenightedbenightingbrighteningbronchitisbullfighterbullfightersbullfightingchitinous
4 syllables
enlightenment1hepatitis1uninvited1Aphroditeaphroditescopyrightedcopyrightingcopywritercopywritersdermatitisdynamiteddynamitingenlighteningenlightenments1entitlemententitlementsentitling
5 syllables
appendicitisencephalitis
6 syllables
7
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
fright10
2 syllables
frighten2frighted10frightens2frighting10
3 syllables
frightening2
4 syllables
frighteningly

“frightened” at line end — from real songs

Stripped naked and frightenedIs because you've been invited
— Black Box Recorder, “Jackie Sixty” · rhymes frightened / invited
Scared of every other body runnin' 'round frightenedCount the seconds between the thunder and the lightning
— Kae Tempest, “Don’t Fall In” · rhymes frightened / lightning
And I felt so sad and frightenedAnd the world in its cold way started coming alive
— The Mountain Goats, “Woke Up New” · rhymes frightened / alive

How to read the 247 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 7
Same stressed vowel, same sounds after it, different beginning. Full resolution — the strongest closure a rhyme can give a line.
Family rhyme 4
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 236
Only the stressed vowel matches; the consonants after it are unrelated. Loose and open — useful when a section should stay unresolved.
Identity 7
The whole stressed syllable repeats, beginning included. That's repetition, not rhyme — the line echoes instead of resolving.