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Words that rhyme withparty

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 R·T
5
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
martyhearty1artieartyMarti
13
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
hardytardysharpiesharpyStarkeybarbie
3 syllables
bacardi1foolhardymalarkey
4 syllables
hierarchy1matriarchyoligarchypatriarchy
11
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
hardly1sharply1Barkley1darkly1Hartleypartlysmartlysparklystarklytartly
3 syllables
McCartney1
mosaic rhyme
start me1
94
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
body2sorry17copy4bobby4naughty1lobby1rockyhockeyrobbie1hobbyscotty2gotti2robby2starry1dhabi1doggy1lottie1sloppy1aribalkyBari
3 syllables
somebody6nobody1karate2atari1jalopy1AlmatyAmatiBihariembodyferrariHararejihadikohlrabiMarathiMasaiMenotti
4 syllables
everybody6antibodycalamaridisembodyHammurabiIrrawaddyKiribatiliteratiNagasakiPavarottiphotocopy
312
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
coffee8army5charlie5Johnny3mommy2tommy1softly5laundry2molly1holly1Ali1Harvey1awfullybonnie1barney1ronnieaudreyconnienazi1zombierodney1donkey1jollystronglypollydolly1Gandhi3archiebarley2carly2godly2honky2Marley2posse2salty1wallymontyavi1Bali1blondie1Cali1chauncy1commie1faulty1fondly1gianni1harshly1lofty1marcy1opry1parsley1poly1Raleigh1archlyAussiebaldlybalmyblotchyBonneybonnybossyboxybrawnybroadlybrollyBrontecalliecalmlycharleyChomskycockneycolliecollyCopleycostlyCrosbyDalidanidarcydonniedonnydoxy
3 syllables
autopsyDurante1Tchaikovsky1afghaniBaranybengalibialyepoxyFulanihibachihydroxyIraniKarachiKigaliloblollyMacaulayMalawiMcCarthyMcCauleyMojavenepaliomanipastramiromanisalamisomalitsunamiungodlyVivaldiYamaniarticle1arteries1articles1artisan1halfhearted1outsmarted1spartacus1wholehearted1arteryarticledartificeartisans1artistriesartistrybartering1bigheartedCartiercartilagecatharticcatharticscharteringdisheartenedDjakartafaintheartedgartering1half-heartedhearteningheartilyJakartajumpstartedjumpstartinglightheartedmartyrdommartyrdoms
4 syllables
melancholy1liberace1AshkenazidemagogydiamantegaribaldigiovannikamikazeMalinowskimariachiMexicalinonchalantlyorigamiorthodoxykindergarten1articlingartificescartilagesdishearteningkindergartens1mozartean
5 syllables
azerbaijaniheterodoxyModiglianimulligatawny
6 syllables
Internationale
26
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
part40
2 syllables
parties4parted2parting1partiedapart95depart6impart2mouthpartrampart
3 syllables
departed3partying1particles1departeds3departing6imparted2imparting2particlepartisan
4 syllables
bipartisannonpartisannonpartisans

“party” at line end — from real songs

All that grace, all that bodyAll that face makes me wanna party
— Lana Del Rey, “Young and Beautiful” · rhymes party / body
This sure is some partyIt's just barely started
— Lyle Lovett, “The Girl in the Corner” · rhymes party / started
Slipping away from the partyEveryone gone from their bodies
— Adrianne Lenker, “Capacity” · rhymes party / bodies

How to read the 435 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 5
Same stressed vowel, same sounds after it, different beginning. Full resolution — the strongest closure a rhyme can give a line.
Family rhyme 13
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 11
Same vowel, but one word carries an extra consonant after the shared ending. The added sound softens the landing slightly.
Subtractive 94
Same vowel, but one word stops a consonant early. A slightly clipped, softer resolution than perfect rhyme.
Assonance 312
Only the stressed vowel matches; the consonants after it are unrelated. Loose and open — useful when a section should stay unresolved.
Identity 26
The whole stressed syllable repeats, beginning included. That's repetition, not rhyme — the line echoes instead of resolving.