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Words that rhyme withjacket

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 AE coda K
4
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
racket2bracket1packet1racquet
mosaic rhyme
hack it1
12
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
maggot1agatetappethabit5rabbit2abbotbabbittCabot
3 syllables
cohabitinhabitjackrabbit
18
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
blanket1basket2casket4magnet2mascot2tablet1banquet1gasket1ankletappletbanditgambitmagnateTalbot
3 syllables
breadbasketelaboratewastebasket
5 syllables
electromagnet
197
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
planet6janet2dammit1hatchet2granite1halfwit1palate1ballotbarrettbassetbranchletcarrotfacetgadgetgamutgarretthamletHammettlanceletlancetmalletMametPagetpalettepalletpamphletratchetSanskrittacittransitpackage1tracking35packing2cracking1Makin1crackers1cracker1backing310backers1
3 syllables
goddammit1Willametteattacking1tobacco1bacharach1faculties1linebacker1alpacaalpacasattackerattackersbackpackerbackpackersbackpacking3backtracking1blackeningbracketed1bracketing1bushwhackingcacklingdaiquiridaiquirisfacultyfullbackinghacklingiraqiiraqiskayakinglacqueringlinebackers1
4 syllables
pomegranatefirecracker1firecrackers1implacablepiggybackingquarterbackingtabernacletabernacles
5 syllables
counterattacking
27
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
jack14
2 syllables
jackiejackal2jackets1jackals2jacking14blackjackcarjackflapjackhijackskipjack
3 syllables
blackjackingbluejacketbluejacketscarjackingcarjackingshijackerhijackershijackinghijackings

“jacket” at line end — from real songs

Motorola pager, off-white Guess jacketDrinking Paul Masson with her hat turned backwards
— Kendrick Lamar, “Auntie Diaries” · rhymes jacket / backwards
And Johnny gets up, takes off his leather jacketTaped to his chest there's the answer
— Patti Smith, “Land: Horses / Land of a Thousand Dances / La Mer(de)” · rhymes jacket / answer

How to read the 230 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 4
Same stressed vowel, same sounds after it, different beginning. Full resolution — the strongest closure a rhyme can give a line.
Family rhyme 11
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 18
Same vowel, but one word carries an extra consonant after the shared ending. The added sound softens the landing slightly.
Assonance 197
Only the stressed vowel matches; the consonants after it are unrelated. Loose and open — useful when a section should stay unresolved.
Identity 27
The whole stressed syllable repeats, beginning included. That's repetition, not rhyme — the line echoes instead of resolving.