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Words that rhyme withworking

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 ER coda K
10
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
lurking1burkingclerking3irkingjerking6murking1perkingquirkingshirkingsmirking2
34
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
hurting5chirping1flirting1blurtingburpingshirting18skirting5slurpingspurtingsquirting1
3 syllables
alerting1assertingavertingconvertingdivertingevertingexerting
4 syllables
disconcertingintrovertingreasserting
6
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
burbling1bursting1thirsting1burglinghurtlingworsting16
29
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
whirringstirring2blurring1birringburringfurringhering38purring1shirringslurringspurring
3 syllables
referringoccurring1chauffeuringconcurringconferringdeferringdemurringdeterring
5 syllables
administering
138
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
burning12turning11learning11searching4servingcursing1yearning2nursing1churning2hurling1squirming1swirling1whirling1berningberthingbirching1birlingbirthing15burlingchurching9curling4curvingearning1earthing55earthlingfirming
3 syllables
returning6concerning1rehearsing1unswerving1adjourningaffirmingcoercingconfirming1conservingconvergingconversingdeservingdisbursingdiscerningdispersingdivergingemergingheartburningimmersingobserving
4 syllables
interspersingoverturningreaffirmingreconfirmingreimbursingundeservingencircling1encirclementencirclementsmicrocircuitmicrocircuits
5 syllables
heterocercal
35
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
work44
2 syllables
workers2worker2workings4homework2brushworkframeworkpatchworkreworkschoolwork
3 syllables
co-workerco-workershardworkingmineworkermineworkersnetworking1
4 syllables
metalworkermetalworkersmetalworkingoverworking

“working” at line end — from real songs

When the stagehand hits the curtainIt's exciting when you're working
— Cassandra Jenkins, “Understudies” · rhymes working / curtain
And I'm jerking, but this whole bag of Viagra isn't workingPinchin' nurse's asses when I'm jacking off with Jergens
— Eminem, “The Real Slim Shady” · rhymes working / jergens
She says the same thing about hersAnd for the first time, it is working
— Jason Molina, “Being in Love” · rhymes working / hers

How to read the 217 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 10
Same stressed vowel, same sounds after it, different beginning. Full resolution — the strongest closure a rhyme can give a line.
Family rhyme 34
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 6
Same vowel, but one word carries an extra consonant after the shared ending. The added sound softens the landing slightly.
Subtractive 29
Same vowel, but one word stops a consonant early. A slightly clipped, softer resolution than perfect rhyme.
Assonance 138
Only the stressed vowel matches; the consonants after it are unrelated. Loose and open — useful when a section should stay unresolved.
Identity 35
The whole stressed syllable repeats, beginning included. That's repetition, not rhyme — the line echoes instead of resolving.