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Words that rhyme withhungry

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 AH coda NG·G·R
2
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
country10
3 syllables
cross-country
66
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
money48honey1funny11buddy5lucky5bloody1study1monkey3mummy1sunny4bunny2sonny1puppy1dummy2tummy2funky3junkie1buggy2muddy2curry1crummy1huggy1ruddy1runny1yuppie1bumpychubbychummychunkyclubbyclunkycruddycuddyduckydumpyfrumpygrubbygrumpygummygunnyguppyhubbyjumpyjunkylumpymuckymuggynuttypluckypunkyputtyrummy
3 syllables
Kentucky4unlucky1burundi
4 syllables
understudy1
81
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
lovely5ugly6rusty1bubbly3comfy2fuzzy2clumsy1comely1crunchy1dusty1Guthrie1husky1hussy1musty1bluntlybrushybrusquelybuffybulky
3 syllables
recovery2Montgomery1abruptlyBiloxibimonthlycorruptlyDebussyMcGuffeyrobustlyunjustly
4 syllables
rediscovery
5 syllables
additionallyinextricably
1
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)
3 syllables
hungrily

“hungry” at line end — from real songs

Just bread when I’m hungryDon’t promise me fair sky above
— Anaïs Mitchell, “Promises” · rhymes hungry / above
Full of myself, but still hungryUgh, school flunky, pill junkie
— Eminem, “Rap God” · rhymes hungry / junkie
And I'd rather die youngAnd I'd rather go hungry
— Guy Clark, “Magnolia Wind” · rhymes hungry / young

How to read the 149 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 2
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 66
Same vowel, but one word stops a consonant early. A slightly clipped, softer resolution than perfect rhyme.
Assonance 81
Only the stressed vowel matches; the consonants after it are unrelated. Loose and open — useful when a section should stay unresolved.
Identity 1
The whole stressed syllable repeats, beginning included. That's repetition, not rhyme — the line echoes instead of resolving.