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Words that rhyme withnothing

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 AH coda TH
52
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
touching48rushing1bluffing1blushing1cussing1fussing1stuffing1brushing4buffingbusing11bussingclutching6
3 syllables
discussing1handcuffing1onrushingrebuffingretouchingadjudgingbegrudgingmisjudgingprejudging
4 syllables
overstuffing
48
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
something3shuffling2trusting1crusting1pulsing1rusting1thrusting1brunching1bulgingbunching5busking
3 syllables
disgusting1adjusting1combustingcornhuskingdistrusting2divulgingencrustingengulfing
4 syllables
readjusting
193
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
coming1running1puttinghunting1gruntingchucklinghumming3cuttingjumping1sucking1stunning1strumming3thumping1drumming2coupling1cumming1cunning1dumbing1flooding1skulking1stunting1blooding51blunting4bucking11bucklingbuddingbugging
3 syllables
becoming2incoming1conducting1homecoming1spelunking1succumbing1abductingabuttingaffrontingbankrupting1bloodsuckingconfrontingconstructingconsultingcorrupting1debuggingdebunkingdecouplingdeductingdestructing2disrupting
4 syllables
interrupting2motherfucking2catapultingdeconstructingjitterbuggingovercomingoverrunningreconstructingself-destructingunbecomingundercutting
2
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
nothings1
3 syllables
nothingness1

“nothing” at line end — from real songs

Something filled upMy heart with nothing
— Arcade Fire, “Wake Up” · rhymes nothing / up
If you want something, don't ask for nothing;If you want nothing, don't ask for something!
— Arcade Fire, “Neighborhood #2 (Laïka)” · rhymes nothing / something
She’d see I know nothingI know you think I drink to much
— Bahamas, “Less Than Love” · rhymes nothing / much

How to read the 292 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.

Family rhyme 52
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 48
Same vowel, but one word carries an extra consonant after the shared ending. The added sound softens the landing slightly.
Assonance 192
Only the stressed vowel matches; the consonants after it are unrelated. Loose and open — useful when a section should stay unresolved.
Identity 2
The whole stressed syllable repeats, beginning included. That's repetition, not rhyme — the line echoes instead of resolving.