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Words that rhyme with kindness — 76 rhymes by quality | Rhyme Land
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Words that rhyme withkindness

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 N·D·N
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 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
blindness1
34
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
highness1minus1lightness2brightness1Midas1shyness1whiteness1drynessibis
3 syllables
politeness1Aquinasarthritisbronchitisdetritusforthrightnessgastritis
4 syllables
hepatitis1dermatitis
5 syllables
encephalitisheterozygous
6 syllables
41
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
crisis1virus1righteous2iris1mindless2pious1timeless1cypress1lifeless1spineless1
3 syllables
tobias1desirouseliasimpiousMarseillesMathiasself-righteous
4 syllables
HimalayasretrovirusZacharias
5 syllables
adenovirus
7 syllables
cytomegalovirus

“kindness” at line end — from real songs

That Britain was now tongue-tiedMaybe they did it out of kindness
— Black Box Recorder, “When Britain Refused to Sing” · rhymes kindness / tied
I need protection from the enemy of righteousnessI need protection from the enemy of kindness
— Lucinda Williams, “Protection” · rhymes kindness / righteousness
It's only time, it will go byIt's in you, that's where you'll find kindness
— Ray LaMontagne, “Be Here Now” · rhymes kindness / by

How to read the 76 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 1
Same stressed vowel, same sounds after it, different beginning. Full resolution — the strongest closure a rhyme can give a line.
Subtractive 34
Same vowel, but one word stops a consonant early. A slightly clipped, softer resolution than perfect rhyme.
Assonance 41
Only the stressed vowel matches; the consonants after it are unrelated. Loose and open — useful when a section should stay unresolved.