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Words that rhyme withreporting

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 AO coda R·T
19
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
courting2forting2shorting6snorting1sorting1sporting6thwarting
3 syllables
abortingassortingcavortingconsortingcontortingdistorting1exhortingexporting1extortingresortingretortingtransporting
28
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
boarding10chording5cording2fording3hoarding1lording28warding3corkingforkingwarping
3 syllables
according1recording3affording7awarding2clapboardingconcordingkeyboarding1
4 syllables
checkerboardingprerecordingreabsorbing
31
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
boring3roaring2snoringpouring1flooring2warring2scoring1soaring1storing1whoring1coringdoringgoring
3 syllables
exploring1ignoring1abhorringadoringdeploringencoringimploringmentorringoutpouring
4 syllables
stevedoringunderscoring
150
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
morning1warning17forming6mourning1forcingwarming1corning1swarming1coursingdwarfing1forginggorginghorning11horsingmorphingnorming2scorchingscorning5sourcingstorming32torching1wharfing1quarter2
3 syllables
performing3adorningbarnstormingbrainstormingconforming1deformingdisgorgingdivorcingendorsingenforcingforewarningheartwarminginformingoutsourcingreforming1shoehorningtransforming1
4 syllables
chloroformingmisinformingoutperformingreinforcinguniforming3antemortemexportableheadquarteringimmortalizeimmortalized
5 syllables
underperformingimmortalizes
67
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
port3Porte1
2 syllables
porter1portal1porters1portaportageportals1portasported3portentportered1porting3Portoreport3support4airport5carport1import1Bridgeportcomport
3 syllables
important5reporter1reported1importancereporters1supporting4deported1imported1reportage1supported1comportedcomportingdeportingimporter
4 syllables
importantlyimportancesporteragespurportedlyreportablereportages1reportedlysupportable
5 syllables
insupportable

“reporting” at line end — from real songs

Twenty-six killed and twenty others wounded (Houston affiliate is reporting)We are following breaking news this morning
— Paul Simon, “Darkness” · rhymes reporting / morning

How to read the 228 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 19
Same stressed vowel, same sounds after it, different beginning. Full resolution — the strongest closure a rhyme can give a line.
Family rhyme 28
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.
Subtractive 31
Same vowel, but one word stops a consonant early. A slightly clipped, softer resolution than perfect rhyme.
Assonance 150
Only the stressed vowel matches; the consonants after it are unrelated. Loose and open — useful when a section should stay unresolved.
Identity 67
The whole stressed syllable repeats, beginning included. That's repetition, not rhyme — the line echoes instead of resolving.