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Words that rhyme withlaundry

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 AA coda N·D·R
146
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
body32sorry17Johnny3copy4bobby4mommy2tommy1naughty1lobby1rockybonnie1ronnieaudreyconniezombiedonkey1hockeyrobbie1hobbyscotty2Gandhi3gotti2honky2robby2starry1montyblondie1commie1dhabi1doggy1gianni1lottie1opry1sloppy1aribalky
3 syllables
somebody6nobody5karate2atari1Durante1jalopy1afghaniAlmatyAmatiBaranyBihariembodyferrariFulaniHarareIranijihadikohlrabiMarathiMenottiMilwaukeeomanipastramiPeabodypeyoteromanisafari
4 syllables
everybody6antibodycalamaridiamantedisembodygiovanniHammurabiIrrawaddyKiribatiliteratiNagasakiorigamiPavarottiphotocopysukiyakiteriyaki
5 syllables
azerbaijaniModiglianimulligatawny
185
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
party20coffee8army5charlie5hardly1softly5molly1martyholly1Ali1Harvey1awfullybarney1nazi1rodney1jollystronglypollysharply1dolly1archiebarley2carly2godly2Marley2posse2salty1wallyavi1Bali1Barkley1Cali1chauncy1darkly1faulty1fondly1harshly1hearty1lofty1marcy1parsley1poly1Raleigh1artiearchlyartyAussiebaldlybarbieblotchybossyboxybroadlybrolly
3 syllables
autopsybacardi1McCartney1Tchaikovsky1bengalibialyepoxyfoolhardyhibachihydroxyKarachiKigaliloblollyMacaulaymalarkeyMalawiMasaiMcCarthyMcCauleyMojavenepalisomaliungodlyVivaldientendre1Mondrianpreponderance
4 syllables
melancholy1hierarchy1liberace1AshkenazidemagogygaribaldikamikazeMalinowskimariachimatriarchyMexicalinonchalantlyoligarchyorthodoxypatriarchypreponderances
5 syllables
heterodoxymitochondrial1hypochondriahypochondriachypochondriacshypochondriasmitochondrionmitochondrions
6 syllables
Internationale
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)
2 syllables
laundries2

“laundry” at line end — from real songs

You don't really wanna know just how far it's goneJust leave well enough alone, keep your dirty laundry
— Don Henley, “Dirty Laundry” · rhymes laundry / gone
Tomorrow morning, there'll be laundryBut he'll be somewhere else to hear the call
— Tom Waits, “Walking Spanish” · rhymes laundry / call

How to read the 331 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.

Subtractive 146
Same vowel, but one word stops a consonant early. A slightly clipped, softer resolution than perfect rhyme.
Assonance 185
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.