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Words that rhyme with manager — 287 rhymes by quality | Rhyme Land
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Words that rhyme withmanager

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 N
287
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
planet6cannot1danny1spanish3anna1planningpanic4annie2channel4hannah1janet2grannycannon4nanny1planets1vanished2fanny1lanapanel1tannerflannel2hannanana1channels1vanish1banner1granite1grannies1tanning1Shannonpanickedanasaniseannalsannas1annexedannulannuledannulledannulsannumannumsANObanishbanishedbanners1banningbanningsbranningcanalescanningcannoned4cannons4cannycanoncanonschanneled4channingclannishcranniedcranniescranny
3 syllables
salvageranimals4animal1piano4Canada2Diana1bananacannabis2sanity2vanity1organicmechanic1analysts2cabana2deanna1Havana1titanic2anarchy1annabelle1annulment1bananas1bandana1Buchanan1cabanas1canisters1cannibal1canopy1channeling1hannigan1johanna1Montana1panicking1panoply1savannah1Susanna1Aeneasafghanisanalystanimateanimatesanimistanimistsanimusanisesannelidannelidsannuals
4 syllables
mechanicalIndiana1insanity1Johannesburg1Arianabiannualbotanicalbotanicalscanopying1caravanningcyanamidcyanamidsempanelingimpanelinginanimateinorganicinsanities1magnanimousMarianasmechanicallymessianicmismanagementmismanagementsmismanages
5 syllables
Louisiana1instantaneous1AmericanaamericanasChristianity
6 syllables
instantaneouslyLouisianianlouisianians
7 syllables
electromechanical
72
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
man307Mann
2 syllables
manage3managed1manner2manners2mannymanic1manning1mannamannasmannered2mannixmanormanorsbatman2madman3snowman1frogman1sandman1Walkman1cavemandoorman
3 syllables
managementmannequin2mannequins1managers1manicures1manilow1germanicmanagementsmanages3managingManamamanateemanicuremanicuredmannering2fisherman4
4 syllables
humanity3manageable1humanities3manicuringmanifestlyRachmaninoffassemblymannewspaperman
5 syllables
inhumanitiesinhumanityunmanageable

“manager” at line end — from real songs

The worker versus the managerIt's the circumference versus the diameter
— Jason Isbell, “Clips” · rhymes manager / diameter
Well how about being manager?We've got our band
— Lou Reed, “You’re In The Band” · rhymes manager / band
Then kill his managerThrow him off the banister, shoot him on camera
— Mos Def, “The Heart Pt. 1” · rhymes manager / camera

How to read the 287 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.

Assonance 287
Only the stressed vowel matches; the consonants after it are unrelated. Loose and open — useful when a section should stay unresolved.
Identity 72
The whole stressed syllable repeats, beginning included. That's repetition, not rhyme — the line echoes instead of resolving.