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Words that rhyme withimportant

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 AO coda R·T
3
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
mordant
3 syllables
discordantabsorbent
3
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)
3 syllables
assortmentcomportmentdeportment
5
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
warrantlaurent1forinttorrent
3 syllables
abhorrent
131
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
dormant1quarter2quarters1mortal2forty1shorter1sorted1courting2shorty2forte1mortar1vortex1chortlechortledchortlescortexcourted6forted2
3 syllables
enforcementadornmentdisgorgementendorsementinformantheadquartersimmortal2distorted1contorted1Mortimer1resorted1transported1aborted
4 syllables
reinforcementantemortemexportableheadquarteringimmortalizeimmortalizedtransportable
5 syllables
immortalizesimmortalizing
44
What it is
  1. The syllables' vowel sounds are different.
  2. The sounds after the vowels are identical.
  3. The syllables begin differently.
How it feels
  1. Perfect
  2. Family
  3. Additive / Subtractive
  4. Assonance
  5. Consonance
resolvedunresolved
Example

love / live — both end in V; AH versus IH

Source
Berklee College of Music's songwriting method (Pat Pattison)
2 syllables
student2parent2serpent1vacant1tyrant1mutantpotent1trident1ardentArendtblatantDurant
3 syllables
apartment8department2compartment1apparent1aberrantadherentbombardmentcoherent
4 syllables
inadvertentincoherentintermittentnoncombatant
67
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
port3Porte1
2 syllables
porter1portal1porters1portaportageportals1portasported3portentportered1porting3Portoreport3support4airport5carport1import1Bridgeportcomport
3 syllables
reporter1reported1reporting1importancereporters1supporting4deported1imported1reportage1supported1comportedcomportingdeportingimporter
4 syllables
importantlyimportancesporteragespurportedlyreportablereportages1reportedlysupportable
5 syllables
insupportable

“important” at line end — from real songs

So when they drew me tattoos I could truly feel importantNow some 22 year old inside a cube of brick and mortar
— Aesop Rock, “Lotta Years” · rhymes important / mortar
I've seen you beforeAre you someone important?
— Black Box Recorder, “Jackie Sixty” · rhymes important / before
To show 'em we love 'em back and let 'em know how importantAnd maybe shout 'em out in a rap or up in a chorus
— Eminem, “Like Toy Soldiers” · rhymes important / chorus

How to read the 186 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 3
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.
Additive 3
Same vowel, but one word carries an extra consonant after the shared ending. The added sound softens the landing slightly.
Subtractive 5
Same vowel, but one word stops a consonant early. A slightly clipped, softer resolution than perfect rhyme.
Assonance 131
Only the stressed vowel matches; the consonants after it are unrelated. Loose and open — useful when a section should stay unresolved.
Consonance 44
The vowels differ but the ending consonants match. The faintest echo of all — texture rather than closure.
Identity 67
The whole stressed syllable repeats, beginning included. That's repetition, not rhyme — the line echoes instead of resolving.