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Words that rhyme with something — 290 rhymes by quality | Rhyme Land
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Words that rhyme withsomething

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 M·TH
12
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
brunching1bunching5crunching5hunching3lunching10munchingpunching5scrunchinglunging3plungingsponging
3 syllables
expunging
93
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
nothing3coming1running21loving9humming3buzzing1touching48judging1rushing1stunning1strumming3drumming2bluffing1blushing1cumming1cunning1cussing1dumbing1fussing1stuffing1brushing4budgingbuffingbummingbungingbunningbusing11
3 syllables
becoming2discussing1incoming1homecoming1succumbing1adjudgingbegrudgingforthcominghandcuffing1misjudgingoncomingonrushingoutrunningprejudgingrebuffingrerunningretouchingshortcomingupcoming
4 syllables
overcomingoverrunningoverstuffingunbecoming
186
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
puttinghunting4gruntingchucklingcuttingjumping1sucking1shuffling2thumping1trusting1coupling1crusting1flooding1pulsing1rusting1skulking1stunting1thrusting1blooding51blunting4bucking11buckling
3 syllables
disgusting1adjusting1conducting1spelunking1abductingabuttingaffrontingbankrupting1bloodsuckingcombustingconfrontingconstructingconsultingcornhuskingcorrupting1debuggingdebunkingdecoupling
4 syllables
interrupting2motherfucking2catapultingdeconstructingjitterbuggingreadjustingreconstructingself-destructingundercutting

“something” at line end — from real songs

If you want something, don't ask for nothing;If you want nothing, don't ask for something!
— Arcade Fire, “Neighborhood #2 (Laïka)” · rhymes something / nothing
She must be worth losing if it is worth something(Sugar, sweet love)
— Tori Amos, “Talula” · rhymes something / love
In the Year of the Tiger 19-somethingEven when I knew you were the last one
— Jason Isbell, “Molotov” · rhymes something / one

How to read the 290 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 12
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 93
Same vowel, but one word stops a consonant early. A slightly clipped, softer resolution than perfect rhyme.
Assonance 185
Only the stressed vowel matches; the consonants after it are unrelated. Loose and open — useful when a section should stay unresolved.