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Rhymes Here is a list of the words that rhyme with the word confounding.This is ordered by best match. Changing color means the start of the next best set of words.
2 syllable words
Near RhymesHere is a list of the words that nearly rhyme with the word confounding.
2 syllable words

grounding

bonding

bounding

founding

funding

hounding

pounding

rounding

sounding

dumbfounds

confined

confound

dumbfound

unbound

foundling

groundling

lending

bouncing

bunting

landing

minding

mounting

pending

pouncing

shuffling

shunting

standing

spending

bending

binding

banding

blending

blinding

ending

winding

finding

grinding

hunting

running

offspring

codding

gunning

plodding

clouding

clowning

flooding

puffing

stuffing

stunning

shrouding

cunning

lunching

browning

budding

nodding

confine

dumpling

handling

kindling

chanting

buckling

building

cuddling

dancing

coupling

daunting

duckling

grafting

lumping

morphing

moulding

hoarding

holding

lifting

mincing

rafting

rifling

scolding

shafting

thumping

wanting

thrusting

slanting

trifling

trusting

shifting

impounds

inkling

sprinkling

boarding

drafting

fencing

folding

angling

infants

golfing

taunting

compounds

jumping

ousting

panting

squinting

wincing

gilding

glancing

glinting

golding

planting

printing

pumping

suckling

wilding

boning

doubting

fucking

gadding

ginning

inning

strutting

sucking

swooning

tanning

tuning

wedding

winning

banking

drinking

awning

bedding

bidding

biding

heading

hiding

hugging

humming

trucking

twining

unbend

drumming

infant

drugging

stinking

dubbing

ducking

grouting

farthing

franking

impound

thinking

housing

tiding

confines

brooding

browsing

compound

bucking

crooning

culling

cutting

hamstring

loving

dawning

nanking

mugging

branching

lining

loading

loaning

madding

mining

nutting

shining

sliding

convince

rubbing

shredding

siding

combined

riding

shedding

signing

sledding

bulging

rousing

launching

butting

jutting

plugging

planking

fining

kenning

pining

pinching

shrinking

sinking

outing

spanking

coming

dining

padding

panning

spinning

plumbing

wellspring

clucking

laughing

offing

pruning

prowling

something

pouting

pudding

putting

sniffing

gushing

sparkling

westling

hanging

flushing

judging

longing

nothing

ringing

singing

slouching

smoothing

rambling

wringing

nestling

tempting

soothing

springing

stinging

tithing

touching

banging

blushing

brushing

clanging

clothing

couching

crushing

mowing

asking

breasting

coasting

coursing

cresting

acting

belting

boxing

coaxing

costing

crackling

camping

carling

grappling

heckling

hosting

harping

malting

marking

mourning

helping

horning

melting

molting

morning

grasping

lamping

boasting

blasting

bolting

carving

arming

carping

casting

fixing

forming

charming

farming

kipling

lasting

listing

painting

frosting

darling

fielding

lightning

faulting

forcing

fainting

parking

roasting

romping

sapling

pelting

piercing

pimping

posting

quilting

resting

salting

scalping

scrimping

stamping

sharking

smelting

sparling

sporting

starling

starting

stripling

tackling

tamping

testing

toasting

vaulting

vesting

warming

warning

whistling

wielding

wrestling

pointing

parting

shelving

sibling

snarling

storming

straddling

twisting

warping

whitling

yielding

tilting

warling

convenes

combines

fledgling

gunpoint

airing

backing

bagging

barring

batting

beading

bearing

belling

billing

biting

blaring

bleeding

blessing

blocking

blooming

boating

bolling

booming

booting

boozing

boring

bowling

braiding

breeding

briefing

brimming

broking

bruting

burning

calling

brawling

calming

caning

caulking

chafing

chilling

chipping

choking

chopping

churning

cleaning

clearing

climbing

clipping

cloaking

clocking

clogging

closing

coating

cocking

colling

combing

cooking

cooling

coping

cracking

cribbing

crossing

curing

damning

daring

derring

dicing

digging

dilling

dipping

diving

docking

doting

dragging

draining

dressing

drilling

dripping

driving

dropping

dueling

during

dwelling

earning

earring

erring

fading

falling

feeding

fehling

feigning

fighting

filing

filling

firing

fitting

flagging

flaring

fleming

flitting

floating

flogging

flooring

foaming

footing

fruiting

fuming

galling

gassing

gearing

getting

girding

giving

glaring

gloaming

grading

greening

grooming

grouping

having

herring

hilling

hissing

hitting

hogging

holing

homing

hopping

icing

jarring

jetting

jogging

joking

kicking

killing

knitting

knocking

lading

lagging

lapping

leading

leaning

learning

legging

lemming

licking

lighting

liking

living

logging

looking

looming

looping

lopping

loring

losing

mapping

matting

meaning

milling

missing

mocking

mooring

moving

musing

muting

nagging

napping

netting

nipping

nosing

oozing

packing

pairing

paring

passing

pegging

petting

picking

piling

piping

pleading

poking

poling

polling

pooling

popping

pressing

priming

quilling

racking

reading

ribbing

rigging

rising

roaring

rocking

rolling

roofing

roving

ruling

sacking

sagging

scarring

schilling

schooling

screening

setting

shading

shearing

shelling

shilling

shipping

shocking

shooting

shoring

sighting

sitting

sizing

skilling

skimming

slapping

slighting

slitting

sloping

slotting

smacking

smelling

smoking

snapping

snoring

soaking

stacking

steering

stocking

straining

swearing

telling

tooling

stalling

ticking

tipping

soaring

spelling

sticking

stooping

stopping

stowing

strapping

striking

stripping

striving

thrilling

topping

trading

tricking

wapping

wording

training

whopping

willing

wrecking

tossing

wading

walking

walling

waning

wiring

veering

sobbing

sopping

stroking

suiting

sweating

swelling

swimming

turning

viking

voiding

webbing

weeding

yearning

yelling

whacking

sparing

talking

trilling

trimming

tripping

whipping

whiting

whooping

writing

yachting

tacking

tubing

voting

wearing

shoestring

bathing

bitching

breathing

catching

coaching

convene

crashing

dashing

dishing

edging

etching

fetching

flashing

hatching

fishing

lodging

pitching

pushing

scratching

stretching

lashing

latching

loathing

matching

patching

sheathing

stitching

sunbeam

switching

teething

thrashing

washing

wishing

witching

invents

blowing

blueing

bluing

bowing

brewing

buying

chewing

cooing

crowing

crying

doing

drawing

drying

dyeing

dying

flowing

flying

frying

glowing

going

growing

knowing

lawing

lowing

lying

owing

evening

prying

sewing

basting

screwing

showing

trying

tasting

wasting

throwing

seedling

vying

weakling

sighing

suing

tying

arching

earthling

forging

invent

marching

scorching

ailing

baiting

beaming

aching

baking

beating

blazing

bracing

ceiling

chasing

coiling

impinge

breaking

chirping

bleeping

boiling

braving

broiling

burping

casing

craving

creaking

creeping

curling

dealing

easing

eating

eking

facing

failing

feeling

flaming

fleeting

foiling

framing

freaking

freezing

gaming

glazing

grating

grayling

grazing

greeting

grieving

healing

hearing

heating

heaving

hurling

hurting

jailing

jeering

jerking

keeling

keeping

leaking

leaping

leasing

mailing

making

meeting

nursing

pacing

paving

peaking

phasing

phrasing

plating

pleasing

quaking

racing

railing

raising

raking

raving

sailing

saving

scaling

scheming

scraping

screaming

seating

seeling

seeming

seizing

serving

shaving

sheeting

shirting

skirting

slating

sleeping

sneaking

sneezing

staving

sterling

speaking

sperling

spurling

squeezing

stating

stealing

streaming

sweeping

sweeting

tailing

taking

teaming

teeming

tracing

trailing

veiling

waiting

waking

weaving

weeping

whaling

wheeling

whirling

working

yearling

aging

beijing

bleaching

breeching

moonbeam

purging

raging

searching

staging

teaching

birthing

merging

henbane

lampoon

paging

plaything

preaching

being

fraying

laying

paying

peeing

playing

praying

saying

seeing

stirring

swaying

weighing

moonbeams

pompoms

pompom

convents

convent

impend

rampant

dampen

hempen

pompons

sampans

tampons

combine

pompon

sampan

tampon

wampum

3 syllable words

confusing

consulting

convincing

unflinching

unyielding

according

ascending

bundling

conceding

concerning

consoling

consuming

infighting

recording

scaffolding

unfailing

unfeeling

unwilling

unwitting

abiding

aligning

ballooning

divining

surrounding

undoing

enchanting

undying

confinement

bungling

canoeing

compounded

expanding

infantile

conflicting

outstanding

unbundle

absorbing

attracting

contacting

impending

insulting

unsparing

landholding

accusing

affecting

alarming

amusing

approving

aspiring

bloodsucking

bullfighting

bumbling

comforting

commuting

composing

connecting

conserving

declining

descending

dwindling

enticing

foreboding

forwarding

incoming

invading

inviting

mumbling

patrolling

reclining

regarding

rumbling

succeeding

trumpeting

tumbling

underling

uprising

conveying

assuming

blundering

dividing

converging

ensuing

interesting

ongoing

adoring

annealing

appalling

baffling

contracting

bubbling

bustling

concurring

doubling

governing

muscling

opposing

obliging

designing

juggling

polluting

profiting

wandering

approaching

reducing

thundering

warehousing

provoking

pondering

transporting

beholding

presiding

proceeding

complaining

completing

enclosing

convention

backsliding

annoying

afflicting

broadcasting

adjoining

winnowing

enduring

engraving

infancy

machining

enlisting

infinite

forecasting

belonging

exhausting

frustrating

suffering

exacting

increasing

inspiring

installing

investing

shipbuilding

symphonic

buffeting

engrossing

hardworking

importing

unfinished

admiring

backbiting

bloodletting

complying

constricting

convenient

defusing

degrading

departing

disarming

disguising

dissolving

equating

exceeding

exciting

fondling

imposing

inserting

life-giving

misleading

networking

observing

offsetting

outfitting

railroading

relapsing

typewriting

upsetting

conventions

distracting

infantry

refreshing

alluring

agreeing

alerting

bushwhacking

engaging

amazing

asserting

befitting

beguiling

blustering

colouring

debating

discerning

entering

highflying

lumbering

pilfering

traversing

inventive

seducing

brainwashing

laundering

appealing

centering

delighting

profiling

rendering

retiring

reviving

dissembling

imploring

improving

distressing

excepting

expelling

reflecting

expiring

existing

misspelling

painstaking

doddering

conjuring

billowing

fingering

conquering

echoing

yellowing

anything

stuttering

assuring

following

finishing

coloring

covering

lingering

tinkering

carousing

vanishing

maturing

mellowing

tympanic

narrowing

infante

soldering

wrongdoing

offering

powdering

erecting

good-looking

resisting

revolting

revolving

despairing

dressmaking

downsizing

misgiving

mistaking

lamenting

decreasing

counseling

emptying

lactating

kidnapping

blackmailing

bookkeeping

endearing

nerve-racking

sleepwalking

surprising

heartbreaking

issuing

flowering

uneven

glowering

groundbreaking

mothering

infamy

towering

souring

cowering

exploring

challenging

scavenging

matchmaking

everything

crusading

deadening

blistering

deafening

detailing

deserving

diverting

emitting

leavening

lessening

reasoning

reckoning

reversing

lawmaking

relieving

repeating

stiffening

threatening

happening

lightening

listening

preceding

seasoning

tempering

maddening

prevailing

quickening

thickening

battening

believing

pervading

softening

whispering

whitening

opening

visiting

plastering

factoring

faltering

fastening

freewheeling

outgoing

outlying

sickening

surviving

ordering

besetting

glistening

surpassing

sweetening

well-being

besieging

churchgoing

connivance

conveyance

cushioning

handwriting

shoplifting

rejoicing

accenting

tormenting

sojourning

battering

arriving

bettering

bickering

bullying

carrying

chattering

copying

dairying

dialing

diapering

flattering

ironing

lettering

glimmering

jockeying

journeying

motoring

toweling

neutering

peppering

pickering

pitying

scattering

seagoing

shadowing

shimmering

smattering

varying

watering

shortening

landscaping

dampening

unthinking

darkening

dissecting

dissenting

easterling

eavesdropping

erupting

hardening

gardening

housekeeping

housewarming

outpouring

pardoning

carjacking

inventors

badgering

convinces

butchering

gathering

feathering

withering

tenpenny

lymphoma

measuring

weathering

lowering

arresting

cackling

correcting

cradling

abducting

mottling

exulting

peddling

scribbling

sizzling

disgusting

settling

hairdressing

becoming

beginning

blossoming

forbidding

paneling

vomiting

harvesting

galloping

opining

piddling

tabling

strengthening

bottling

channeling

crippling

cycling

locating

drizzling

leveling

meddling

middling

modeling

promising

quarreling

raveling

riveting

ticketing

damaging

ravishing

arranging

inventor

polishing

campaigning

caressing

carpeting

favoring

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gambling

imprinting

laboring

marketing

murmuring

neighboring

oncoming

papering

parceling

persisting

scrambling

surveying

tailoring

tapering

trembling

typesetting

twinkling

crocheting

marshaling

tinkling

blanketing

wagering

nourishing

compunction

forgiving

childbearing

perplexing

respecting

shortcoming

layering

forthcoming

soldiering

languishing

diverging

homophones

tympanum

thanksgiving

impinges

homophone

compensates

beseeching

chimpanzees

compensate

campana

company

pompano

symphony

bambinos

chimpanzee

companies

symphonies

bambino

components

ambient

champions

comeuppance

nonpayment

embankments

component

embayment

inventions

companions

campion

champion

zambian

embankment

invention

companion

empanel

impanel

lymphomas

4 syllable words

understanding

corresponding

unbelieving

unassuming

astonishing

never-ending

suffocating

fluctuating

undulating

unavailing

condescending

convincingly

unrelenting

underpinning

undertaking

underwriting

unremitting

emphasizing

unbecoming

inquiring

merchandising

nonrecurring

notwithstanding

underlying

compendium

encouraging

energizing

inoffensive

oceangoing

centralizing

encompassing

integrating

one-upmanship

gratifying

notifying

realizing

edifying

pioneering

infinity

speechifying

disappointing

denigrating

disapproving

encircling

entertaining

everlasting

enveloping

interlocking

penetrating

monophonic

agonizing

appetizing

fascinating

obviating

overpowering

infanticide

laminating

dominating

domineering

inheriting

inhibiting

detonating

diagnosing

bewildering

disconcerting

enterprising

infinitely

infinitive

overarching

parachuting

registering

executing

conventional

intersecting

operating

conveniently

separating

liberating

reentering

maximizing

advertising

devastating

dispiriting

interviewing

coexisting

patronizing

barbecuing

disengaging

disparaging

engineering

legislating

conditioning

annotating

delegating

irritating

disappearing

overflowing

overlapping

persevering

vacillating

hesitating

mitigating

oscillating

occupying

combinable

impunity

implicating

agitating

infanticides

moderating

overlying

captivating

distributing

mountaineering

aggravating

activating

circulating

palpitating

admonishing

inventories

calculating

fireproofing

complicating

awakening

inventory

petitioning

examining

enlightening

combination

waterproofing

partitioning

bicycling

overcoming

overrating

disabling

overruling

compensation

developing

combinations

overhauling

disheartening

discouraging

compensations

overwhelming

championship

embarrassing

fingerprinting

compensable

compensated

invincible

overbearing

babysitting

championships

companionship

distinguishing

companionway

Words that rhyme with the word confounding

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  • Cat and Hat
  • Head and Red
  • Egg and Beg
  • Soap and Hope
  • True and Blue

Imperfect Rhymes

Near rhymes, otherwise known as imperfect rhymes, are words that sound the same but are not perfect rhymes. Having trouble deciding if a word is a perfect or imperfect rhyme? Here are some examples:

  • Cat and Bad
  • Head and Mud
  • Egg and Peck
  • Soap and Chap
  • True and Cure

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When creating lyrics, there are five types of rhymes to choose from.

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Different Types of Rhymes
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