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Words that rhyme withpresent

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 EH coda Z
4
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
pleasantpeasant1pheasant
3 syllables
unpleasant1
18
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
crescent1
3 syllables
fluorescent1incessant1depressantquiescentsuppressanttumescent
4 syllables
adolescent1acquiescentconvalescenteffervescentevanescentincandescentiridescentluminescentobsolescent
5 syllables
antidepressantpreadolescent
14
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
extantpenchanttrenchant
3 syllables
investmentassessment1commencement1contestantentrenchmentimpressmentrefreshmentretrenchment
4 syllables
decongestantdisinvestmentreassessment
86
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
pregnant2parent2pennant1tenant1Arendtclemententranterrantpedantpendantremnantsegmentdesert3deserts1peasants1resin1mezzomezzoespheasantspleasants
3 syllables
lieutenant1defendantresentment3contentment2apparent1attendant1dependent1transcendent1aberrantamendmentappellantascendantdescendantdescendentexpectantgrandparent
4 syllables
independent1disinfectantunrepentantembezzlementembezzlementsembezzlerembezzlers
5 syllables
superintendentinterdependentwater-repellent
12
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
pres1
2 syllables
presence5presents2
3 syllables
presences5presenterpresenterspresently
4 syllables
omnipresenceomnipresentpresidenciespresidency
5 syllables
omnipresences

“present” at line end — from real songs

I told them, "You will grow to be something inventive and electric;You are healthy, you are special, you are present"
— Aesop Rock, “Gopher Guts” · rhymes present / electric
You said "Ain't this just like the presentAs the moon waned to crescent
— Bon Iver, “Blood Bank” · rhymes present / crescent
And there's no time in the presentAnd there's a black dog on the bed
— Father John Misty, “I’m Writing a Novel” · rhymes present / bed

How to read the 122 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 4
Same stressed vowel, same sounds after it, different beginning. Full resolution — the strongest closure a rhyme can give a line.
Family rhyme 18
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 14
Same vowel, but one word carries an extra consonant after the shared ending. The added sound softens the landing slightly.
Assonance 86
Only the stressed vowel matches; the consonants after it are unrelated. Loose and open — useful when a section should stay unresolved.
Identity 12
The whole stressed syllable repeats, beginning included. That's repetition, not rhyme — the line echoes instead of resolving.