Words That Rhyme With Good
could, misunderstood, should, stood and understood rhyme with good. Below are all 9 everyday perfect rhymes, plus near rhymes such as book, foot, look and mistook.
Perfect rhymes for good9
1 syllable · 6
- could
- should
- stood
- would
- wood
- hood
2 syllables · 1
- withstood
3 syllables · 1
- understood
4 syllables · 1
- misunderstood
Near rhymes for good
Same stressed vowel, slightly different ending.
1 syllable
- book
- foot
- look
- put
- took
- cook
- hook
- shook
- brook
- crook
- nook
- rook
- soot
- butch
- gook
- putsch
2 syllables
- mistook
- afoot
- forsook
- unhook
- retook
3 syllables
- undertook
- overtook
- underfoot
- pussyfoot
- overcook
4 syllables
- gobbledygook
Using rhymes for good
Good rhymes with could, should, would, stood and understood, so it is easy to rhyme but tends to produce lines full of helper verbs. *Stood* and understood carry the most meaning. Near rhymes like look, book and took keep the short “oo” and change the final consonant.
Example lines
Two original couplets: one with a perfect rhyme, one with a near rhyme.
I didn’t say a word, I simply held your hand and stood,
and somehow being there was all it took to make it good.
I gave you all I had, it wasn’t much, but it was good,
and you held it like a treasure, and you gave it one long look.
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