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Words that rhyme withhuman

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 M
11
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
crewmancuminlumenNeumannNewmanrumenSchumannTruman
3 syllables
bitumen1acumenalbumin
6
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
union1Muenchen
3 syllables
reunion1communion2disunionnonunion
4
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
ruin7bruinWuhan
3 syllables
McLuhan
169
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
susanHouston5provenfusion1gluten1loosen1newton1croutoncubanlupinPoussinPutinReubensmoothenSteubenrumors1rumor1tumor2blooming1gloomy2Yuma2bloomers1booming1looming1plumage1puma1sumo1bloomerboomerboomersbrooming5cuminsdooming7DumaDumasfumingglooming9
3 syllables
solution2confusion10illusion3conclusion2delusion4pollution1contusion1intrusion1ablutionaleutianallusioncollusionconfuciandiffusiondilutionexclusionextrusionHumulininclusioninfusionMenuhinocclusionperfusionpreclusionprofusionRasputinseclusiontransfusion
4 syllables
revolution4execution2prosecutionevolutioninstitution1constitutionpersecution1prostitution1resolution1absolutionandalusianattributioncontributionconvolutiondestitutiondevolutiondiminutiondisillusion
5 syllables
6 syllables
counterrevolution
32
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
Hume
2 syllables
humans8humor1humour2humidhumored1humors1humoured2humours2humus
3 syllables
exhuminghumanisthumanistshumanlyhumannesshumerus
4 syllables
superhuman1dehumanizedehumanized
5 syllables
dehumanizes

“human” at line end — from real songs

And I’m not in a moodWell surely that’s only human
— Damien Rice, “Camarillas” · rhymes human / mood
Uh, summa-lumma, dooma-lumma, you assumin' I'm a humanWhat I gotta do to get it through to you? I'm superhuman
— Eminem, “Rap God” · rhymes human / superhuman
Some humans ain't humanThough they walk like we do
— John Prine, “Some Humans Ain’t Human” · rhymes human / do

How to read the 190 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 11
Same stressed vowel, same sounds after it, different beginning. Full resolution — the strongest closure a rhyme can give a line.
Additive 6
Same vowel, but one word carries an extra consonant after the shared ending. The added sound softens the landing slightly.
Subtractive 4
Same vowel, but one word stops a consonant early. A slightly clipped, softer resolution than perfect rhyme.
Assonance 169
Only the stressed vowel matches; the consonants after it are unrelated. Loose and open — useful when a section should stay unresolved.
Identity 32
The whole stressed syllable repeats, beginning included. That's repetition, not rhyme — the line echoes instead of resolving.