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Words that rhyme withlocket

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 K
8
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
pocket2rocket1Crockettdocketsocketsprocket
3 syllables
pickpocketskyrocket
mosaic rhyme
rock it1block it1cock it1
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
audithobbitplaudit
15
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
market3target4carpet11chocolate1droplet1goblet1argotbartlettgantletgauntlet
3 syllables
newmarketupmarket
4 syllables
supermarket2hypermarketpatriarchate
200
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
closet3wallet2profit4charlotte1prophet3sonnet3vomit2bonnet1faucet2harlot2scarlet2starlet1comet1omelet1colletcossetgarnetpositscarlettsoffitstarlittalking20walking13pockets13talkin6knocking2walker2rockysoccer1hockeyshocking1rocker1sockets1squawking2rockets2stocking2stockings1talker1
3 syllables
depositbluebonnetcompositeincarnatenonprofitrecommitbroccoli2morocco1sleepwalking2miyake1pocketed1blockagesbroccolis2CaracasCaucasuscaucusescaucusingcockeringcockinesscocklingcrockeriescrockerydebacledebaclesdocketeddocketingguanacojaywalkingJoachimjoachims
4 syllables
antiknockingevocativeknickerbockersNagasakioverstockingprovocativeskyrocketedskyrocketingstreptococcussukiyakisukiyakisteriyakiteriyakistomahawking1
5 syllables
provocativelystaphylococcus
6 syllables
Czechoslovakiaczechoslovakian
28
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
lock5lochLocke
2 syllables
locker1lockers3laugherlaugherslockets6locking5warlock1airlockdeadlockflintlockgridlockhavelock
3 syllables
unlocking1padlockinghammerlockinterlock
4 syllables
interlocking

“locket” at line end — from real songs

She took off a silver locketShe put her hand in my pocket
— Dire Straits, “Tunnel of Love” · rhymes locket / pocket
Leaks the little gentle man made of lightning inside my lock-boxOh, you like to help with coats, you should see what I got in this here locket
— Aesop Rock, “Drawbridge” · rhymes locket / box
Goes in her pocket, pulls out a tiny necklace locketIt's got a picture, "This'll keep you safe, Daddy, take it wit' ya"
— Eminem, “When I’m Gone” · rhymes locket / ya

How to read the 226 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 8
Same stressed vowel, same sounds after it, different beginning. Full resolution — the strongest closure a rhyme can give a line.
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 15
Same vowel, but one word carries an extra consonant after the shared ending. The added sound softens the landing slightly.
Assonance 200
Only the stressed vowel matches; the consonants after it are unrelated. Loose and open — useful when a section should stay unresolved.
Identity 28
The whole stressed syllable repeats, beginning included. That's repetition, not rhyme — the line echoes instead of resolving.