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Words that rhyme with rainbow — 34 rhymes by quality | Rhyme Land
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Words that rhyme withrainbow

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 EY coda N·B
27
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
ayo1dado1kato1maaco1ramo1credoDracomayoNATOPlanoPlato
3 syllables
potato2diego1Laredo1tomato1volcano2tornado1cacaolumbagopaseo
4 syllables
OviedoWinnebago
7
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
pedrohalo1nuevo1peso1
4 syllables
MontenegroSarajevoValparaiso

“rainbow” at line end — from real songs

Can't you see that tiny rainbow?It just kind of broke a funny way
— Guy Clark, “Step Inside This House” · rhymes rainbow / way
I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbowI met another man who was wounded in hatred
— Bob Dylan, “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” · rhymes rainbow / hatred
- From "Finian's Rainbow"(words by E.Y. Harburg; music by Burton Lane)
— E.Y. Harburg, “How Are Things In Glocca Morra?” · rhymes rainbow / lane

How to read the 34 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.

Subtractive 27
Same vowel, but one word stops a consonant early. A slightly clipped, softer resolution than perfect rhyme.
Assonance 7
Only the stressed vowel matches; the consonants after it are unrelated. Loose and open — useful when a section should stay unresolved.