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

groundling

foundling

bounding

dancing

founding

glancing

grounding

hounding

mounting

ousting

pounding

rounding

sounding

browning

browsing

clowning

housing

rising

rousing

sizing

hamstring

offspring

consign

bounces

ounces

shoestring

handling

chanting

costing

hunting

angling

toasting

thrusting

casting

mincing

wincing

panting

coaxing

banding

coasting

daunting

coursing

minding

planting

winding

shunting

trusting

standing

finding

binding

blasting

asking

blinding

boasting

boxing

forcing

bonding

frosting

hosting

funding

grasping

grinding

slanting

wanting

bunting

fencing

landing

lasting

posting

taunting

roasting

awning

banking

biding

biting

blazing

boning

boozing

branching

climbing

closing

clouding

crooning

crossing

cunning

dawning

dicing

dining

diving

doubting

driving

easing

fighting

filing

fining

firing

franking

freezing

gassing

glazing

grazing

grouting

gunning

hiding

icing

incised

launching

lighting

liking

lining

loaning

losing

lunching

mining

musing

nanking

nosing

oozing

outing

panning

passing

phasing

phrasing

piling

pining

piping

planking

pleasing

pouting

priming

prowling

pruning

raising

riding

running

seizing

shining

shrouding

siding

sighting

signing

sliding

slighting

sneezing

spanking

squeezing

striking

striving

stunning

swooning

tanning

tiding

tossing

tuning

twining

viking

wellspring

whiting

wiring

writing

dyeing

dying

slouching

tithing

dumpling

washing

mowing

clanging

sconces

hanging

incise

nestling

sighing

westling

gushing

drying

trying

banging

sparkling

prying

flying

tying

fancies

brushing

crashing

ensign

flashing

couching

flushing

buying

longing

beijing

blushing

vying

kindling

rambling

lying

chances

dances

frying

dashing

thrashing

crying

concise

crushing

lashing

buckling

camping

acting

basting

bending

arming

blending

boarding

breasting

bolting

carling

carping

carving

charming

coupling

crackling

cresting

cuddling

darling

drafting

duckling

ending

fainting

farming

faulting

fixing

folding

forming

glinting

golding

golfing

grafting

grappling

harping

hoarding

holding

horning

jumping

lamping

lending

lightning

listing

lounges

lumping

malting

marking

molting

morning

morphing

moulding

mourning

nonesuch

painting

parking

printing

parting

piercing

pointing

pumping

rafting

resting

rifling

pending

romping

inkling

scolding

salting

sapling

scalping

sprinkling

shafting

sharking

shuffling

snarling

sparling

spending

sporting

squinting

stamping

starling

storming

tamping

starting

straddling

suckling

tackling

tasting

testing

thumping

warning

warming

trifling

twisting

vaulting

vesting

warling

warping

wasting

whistling

wilding

wrestling

arching

bulging

consist

drinking

forging

farthing

insights

marching

pinching

scorching

shrinking

sinking

something

stinking

thinking

aching

backing

bagging

ailing

baiting

baking

barring

batting

beading

beaming

beating

bleeding

bleeping

blessing

blocking

blooming

boiling

bolling

booming

boring

bowling

bracing

boating

booting

braiding

braving

brawling

breaking

breeding

briefing

broiling

broking

brooding

bruting

bucking

budding

burning

butting

calling

calming

caning

casing

caulking

ceiling

chafing

chasing

choking

chopping

churning

cleaning

cloaking

clocking

clogging

clucking

coating

cocking

codding

coiling

colling

combing

coming

cooling

coping

cracking

craving

creaking

creeping

culling

cutting

damning

dealing

docking

doting

dragging

draining

dressing

dropping

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drumming

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ducking

dueling

earning

eating

eking

facing

fading

failing

falling

feeding

feeling

feigning

flagging

flaming

fleeting

floating

flogging

flooding

flooring

foaming

foiling

framing

freaking

fruiting

fucking

fuming

gadding

galling

gaming

ginning

gloaming

grading

grating

grayling

greening

greeting

grieving

grooming

grouping

having

healing

hearing

heating

heaving

hissing

hogging

holing

homing

hopping

hugging

humming

inning

jailing

jarring

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jogging

joking

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keeling

keeping

kenning

knocking

lading

lagging

lapping

laughing

leading

leaking

leaning

leaping

learning

leasing

loading

logging

looming

looping

lopping

loring

loving

madding

mailing

making

mapping

matting

meaning

meeting

missing

mocking

moving

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muting

nagging

napping

nodding

nursing

nutting

offing

pacing

packing

padding

paving

peaking

plating

pleading

plodding

plugging

plumbing

poking

poling

polling

pooling

popping

pressing

puffing

putting

quaking

racing

racking

railing

raking

raving

reading

roaring

rocking

rolling

roofing

roving

rubbing

ruling

sacking

sagging

sailing

saving

scaling

scarring

scheming

schooling

scraping

screaming

screening

seating

seeling

seeming

shading

shaving

sheeting

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shooting

shoring

slapping

slating

sleeping

sloping

slotting

smacking

smoking

snapping

sneaking

snoring

soaking

soaring

sobbing

sopping

speaking

spinning

stacking

stalling

stating

staving

stealing

stocking

stooping

stopping

stowing

straining

strapping

streaming

stroking

strutting

stuffing

sucking

suiting

sweeping

sweeting

tacking

tailing

taking

teaming

talking

teeming

tooling

topping

tracing

trading

trailing

training

trucking

tubing

turning

veiling

voiding

voting

wading

waiting

waking

walking

walling

waning

weeding

whaling

wheeling

whooping

yearning

wapping

whacking

yachting

weeping

whopping

winning

weaving

tempting

aging

bathing

breathing

breeching

catching

clothing

coaching

bleaching

chainsaws

dishing

fences

fishing

hatching

homesick

insight

judging

latching

loathing

lodging

matching

minces

nothing

paging

pansies

patching

plaything

preaching

pushing

ransack

raging

ringing

scratching

senses

sheathing

smoothing

soothing

springing

staging

stinging

teaching

touching

wringing

teething

singing

wishing

being

blowing

blueing

bluing

bowing

brewing

chewing

cooing

crowing

doing

drawing

flowing

fraying

glowing

going

growing

knowing

lawing

anguish

laying

seeing

lowing

praying

saying

playing

owing

paying

peeing

screwing

sewing

suing

weighing

throwing

consists

showing

swaying

languish

vanquish

belting

building

bunches

donkeys

evening

fielding

ganges

gilding

heckling

helping

hunches

kipling

launches

lifting

lunches

lunges

melting

pelting

pimping

punches

quilting

ranches

scrimping

seedling

shelving

shifting

sibling

smelting

stripling

tilting

weakling

whitling

wielding

yankees

yielding

concoct

insist

sneezes

fledgling

earthling

pancakes

anguished

airing

bearing

bedding

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bidding

blaring

engaged

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brimming

burping

chilling

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chirping

clipping

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during

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erring

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filling

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fleming

flitting

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gearing

getting

girding

giving

glaring

heading

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hilling

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hurting

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killing

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lemming

licking

living

looking

milling

mooring

netting

nipping

paring

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petting

pairing

picking

pudding

quilling

ribbing

rigging

schilling

serving

setting

shearing

shedding

shelling

shilling

shipping

shirting

shredding

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skimming

skirting

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sterling

sticking

stripping

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swelling

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whirling

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wording

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ensues

etching

fetching

insists

longish

merging

pancake

pitching

purging

searching

smokestacks

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stretching

switching

witching

benches

changes

engage

enjoys

finches

hinges

manges

menges

minges

ponchos

quenches

ranges

wenches

stirring

downcast

incest

insect

namesakes

smokestack

smooches

insects

encase

namesake

conquests

congest

unjust

conquest

gamecock

bongos

incas

monkeys

encased

linkage

pinkish

lynxes

linguist

incase

linguists

bangkok

inches

mangoes

tangos

gamecocks

language

ingest

inquest

inject

injects

remakes

3 syllable words

confusing

backsliding

handwriting

inspiring

consulting

admiring

aspiring

backbiting

bloodsucking

bundling

concerning

conserving

consoling

consuming

disguising

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housekeeping

housewarming

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oncoming

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parceling

succeeding

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typewriting

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highflying

muscling

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fastening

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marshaling

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groundbreaking

landscaping

outstanding

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conforming

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contacting

installing

insulting

painstaking

incisive

unsparing

blackmailing

bullfighting

bumbling

complying

carpeting

connecting

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dwindling

mumbling

endearing

exceeding

gambling

incoming

inserting

invading

lactating

offsetting

consignment

marketing

outfitting

pronouncing

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rumbling

scrambling

trumpeting

tumbling

typesetting

underling

unwilling

unwitting

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asserting

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agreeing

appalling

assuming

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baffling

bubbling

bottling

carjacking

engaging

beguiling

blundering

blustering

cackling

delighting

ensuing

concurring

debating

galloping

lessening

glistening

lawmaking

juggling

listening

modeling

locating

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channeling

designing

ongoing

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doubling

laundering

mottling

opening

outgoing

paneling

plastering

pondering

preceding

presiding

profiting

retiring

surviving

surrounding

thundering

matchmaking

brainwashing

converging

quarreling

raveling

reviving

undoing

contracting

vomiting

wandering

abducting

absorbing

anything

arriving

assuring

attracting

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besieging

buffeting

canoeing

carousing

carrying

censuses

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concisely

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conquering

copying

enclosing

enduring

engraving

frustrating

incisors

increasing

jockeying

journeying

powdering

shortcoming

strengthening

thanksgiving

toweling

unbending

unyielding

vanishing

wrongdoing

constricting

comforting

glowering

enchanting

consequent

dressmaking

consequence

towering

dissecting

trembling

incisor

disarming

nerve-racking

misleading

souring

mistaking

forthcoming

bloodletting

recording

cowering

flowering

affecting

according

amazes

abounding

unshackle

crocheting

degrading

scaffolding

concussion

alarming

bookkeeping

conflicting

exploring

heartbreaking

opposing

relieving

repeating

leveling

settling

tabling

whispering

faltering

rendering

ordering

alerting

alluring

arresting

ballooning

becoming

believing

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blistering

factoring

freewheeling

lumbering

meddling

middling

prevailing

promising

reducing

scribbling

well-being

insightful

sizzling

everything

drizzling

pervading

colouring

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discerning

entering

peddling

traversing

riveting

centering

cradling

piddling

ticketing

crippling

enlisting

afflicting

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concussions

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dumbfounding

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excepting

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landholding

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importing

harvesting

imploring

investing

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caressing

ravishing

soldiering

chattering

fingering

finishing

covering

maturing

coloring

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dialing

diapering

doddering

flattering

ironing

motoring

neutering

offering

pitying

scattering

smattering

soldering

stuttering

lingering

suffering

surveying

varying

watering

damaging

geniuses

polishing

tinkering

winnowing

commanding

bonuses

composing

concession

engages

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nuances

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amusing

ascending

consciously

departing

despairing

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emptying

erecting

gathering

forwarding

issuing

sinuses

erupting

badgering

minuses

mothering

good-looking

kidnapping

lamenting

misgiving

observing

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ramshackle

sciences

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challenging

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concoctions

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lowering

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warehousing

eavesdropping

interesting

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quickening

reversing

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reasoning

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forgiving

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happening

kinshasa

leavening

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seasoning

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softening

stiffening

surpassing

sweetening

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thickening

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shipbuilding

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fungicides

concessions

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hardworking

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congestion

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annexes

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consistent

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conjugal

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foreboding

fungicide

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incision

life-giving

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patrolling

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unthinking

sleepwalking

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bushwhacking

butchering

feathering

incessant

weathering

hanukkahs

refreshing

wagering

consecrate

amasses

measuring

approaching

menaces

ancestry

withering

beginning

childbearing

complaining

congested

conjugates

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existing

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incisions

injustice

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tonnages

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ancestor

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insecure

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yellowing

ancestors

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lancaster

whimsical

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engagements

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demagogue

remisses

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finishes

homages

conjectures

rummages

conjecture

synagogue

demagogues

synagogues

linkages

amigos

injector

ingested

injectors

ingestion

injection

languages

injections

images

4 syllable words

maximizing

appetizing

merchandising

agonizing

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emphasizing

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underwriting

patronizing

advertising

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fascinating

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conditioning

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underlying

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mountaineering

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bicycling

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cenozoic

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inquisition

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conjugations

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amnesiac

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honeysuckle

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honeysuckles

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waterproofing

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partitioning

lineages

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inquisitor

insecticides

insistently

unsuccessful

distinguishing

inquisitors

insecticide

fingerprinting

angiogram

demagogy

cynicism

jingoism

incognito

jingoistic

linguistically

injectable

6 syllable words
7 syllable words

Words that rhyme with the word downsizing

Welcome to the Rhyme Finder! This rhyming dictionary allows users to explore rhymes for any given word. This includes rhymes based on syllables, near rhymes, and more.


How to use the rhyming dictionary

Enter your "starter" word in the FIND RHYMES input box, and click search. It's really that simple! We separate perfect rhymes (near the top) from the imperfect rhymes (toward the bottom). In your rhyming results, colors descend based on the best rhyme. Once the color changes, you will notice the results reset back into alphabetical order. Click on any of the results for the word's definition, part of speech, use in Scrabble, and more. Please note that many of our results are proper nound or slang. While we may not store definitions for all of these words, we can direct you to the Google results for that word.


Perfect Rhymes

Perfect rhymes are just what they sound like. No pun intended! Think of perfect rhymes as words which definitively rhyme. Words that most people would not question. Here are some examples:

  • 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

Using Rhymes

Rhymes are most useful in creating lyrics, but they can also be used as a tool to memorize. It is a powerful mnemonic device. This is why song lyrics can be so easy to remember! It's also why rhymes are a great study tool for memorizing! Use this tool to help write poetry, win rhyme games, write a rap song, create lyrics, and expand your vocabulary! Rhyming is very important in music because it creates a rhythm that further creates meaning, emotion, and feeling. It also creates an echo in the lyrics. With children, rhyming is a very important tool. Rhyming teaches children how language works, helps them understand the rhythm of language, and learn how to make predictions. In other words, rhymes teach children phrases to anticipate and rhymes enhance their memory. Within all contexts, rhyming is helpful in expanding your imagination no matter if you’re a child or an adult.

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

  • End rhymes: rhyming of the final word of a line
  • Internal rhymes: rhyming of two words within the same line
  • Slant rhymes: near rhymes
  • Identical rhymes: use the same word at the end of each line
  • Eye rhymes: look like they rhyme but sound different

Different Types of Rhymes
  • Mascline rhymes: have a stressed syllable
  • Feminine rhymes: have a stressless syllable.

Ready for a challenge? Try to come up with rhymes for these surprising words that just aren’t very rhymy. Check them with our dictionary! Examples of tough rhymes:

  • Month
  • Silver
  • Bulb
  • Wolf
  • Husband
  • Walrus
  • Orange

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