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Words that rhyme withlaughing

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 F
10
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
chaffing1graphingstaffing1
4 syllables
autographing2hectographinglithographingparagraphingphotographing7telegraphing
5 syllables
mimeographing
56
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
passing1catching1crashing2flashing3smashing1scratching1slashing1splashing1thrashing1ashing4bashing2
3 syllables
abashingamassingattaching1backlashingbypassingdetachingdispatchingharassingmismatching
67
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
dancing8asking4gasping1blasting1grasping1Lansing1prancing1tasking1basking1blanchingbranching2casting9chancing
3 syllables
collapsing3romancing1advancing1financing1newscasting1relaxing1broadcastingclimaxingcontrasting1elapsing
4 syllables
everlasting3avalanchingflabbergastingovercasting1overdraftingovertaxingrebroadcasting
374
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
standing1acting3hanging4planninglanding5pantingtracking35banging9packing2chantinghandlingrattling2cracking1camping5draggingcrackling2clapping2ranking1flapping2rambling1backing310bragging1catting1grambling1lacking1manning1rapping1slamming1slapping1smacking1tanning1trapping1wrapping1yapping1adding3anding41anglingbaggingbanding59banking14banningbattingblabbingblacking75
3 syllables
kidnappingattacking1outstanding1demanding1adapting1withstanding1abstracting1attracting2backhandingbackpacking3backslappingbacktracking1blackjackingbootstrappingbushwhackingcanallingcarjackingcatnappingchitchattingcombatingcombattingcommanding11contacting5corrallingdecampingdecantingdetractingdiffractingdisbanding1distracting1enactingencampingenchanting
4 syllables
understanding3anagrammingboomeranging1caravanningcopycattingcounteractingdiagramingdiagramminghandicappinginteractingnotwithstandingoveractingoverhangingoverlappingpiggybackingquarterbackingreenactingreprimandingsubcontractingthermostatting
5 syllables
misunderstanding1overreacting1counterattacking
6 syllables
7 syllables
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 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
laugh39
2 syllables
Laffer
3 syllables
laughable1laughingly1

“laughing” at line end — from real songs

You won't be laughing when your front lawn is spangled with epitaphs (You won't…You won't be laughing when the buzzards drag your brother's flags to rags
— Aesop Rock, “Daylight” · rhymes laughing / rags
I heard one person starve, I heard many people laughingI heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley
— Bob Dylan, “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” · rhymes laughing / alley
Killing off my people and the media is laughingMixed with the weed and the pills and the acid
— Elliott Smith, “The Worlds Ending” · rhymes laughing / acid

How to read the 507 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 10
Same stressed vowel, same sounds after it, different beginning. Full resolution — the strongest closure a rhyme can give a line.
Family rhyme 56
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 67
Same vowel, but one word carries an extra consonant after the shared ending. The added sound softens the landing slightly.
Assonance 374
Only the stressed vowel matches; the consonants after it are unrelated. Loose and open — useful when a section should stay unresolved.
Identity 4
The whole stressed syllable repeats, beginning included. That's repetition, not rhyme — the line echoes instead of resolving.