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Rhymes Here is a list of the words that rhyme with the word expanding.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 expanding.
2 syllable words

expounds

expanse

expend

expound

expunge

misspend

responds

banding

expense

standing

fixing

landing

wellspring

disband

respond

kindling

handling

bending

binding

blending

blinding

bonding

bounding

building

chanting

dancing

dispensed

ending

finding

founding

funding

gilding

glancing

glinting

grinding

grounding

hounding

kipling

lending

listing

mincing

minding

misspent

panting

pending

piercing

pimping

planting

pounding

printing

rounding

scrimping

slanting

sounding

spending

squinting

stripling

suspends

twisting

whistling

wincing

winding

banking

branching

dispense

planking

pinching

hissing

response

tipping

franking

ticking

kicking

licking

nanking

inning

tanning

spanking

bidding

clipping

gadding

ginning

nipping

padding

panning

chipping

dripping

missing

dipping

madding

picking

suspend

shipping

spinning

sticking

stripping

tricking

tripping

whipping

winning

offspring

clanging

fishing

foundling

hanging

dumpling

groundling

springing

stinging

nestling

tempting

westling

banging

dishing

singing

ringing

wishing

wringing

angling

inkling

sprinkling

bouncing

boxing

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coaxing

coupling

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grafting

grasping

helping

lamping

lifting

jumping

buckling

duckling

cresting

daunting

fainting

fencing

fielding

hunting

drafting

camping

bunting

heckling

lumping

mounting

pouncing

pumping

quilting

resting

shafting

painting

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shifting

shunting

sibling

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straddling

suckling

tamping

taunting

testing

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thumping

tilting

trusting

vesting

wanting

wrestling

weakling

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wielding

yielding

hamstring

batting

burning

bleeding

beading

bucking

budding

browning

bedding

biding

billing

bleeping

blessing

braiding

breeding

brimming

caning

cleaning

launching

lunching

clearing

shrinking

sinking

chilling

churning

awning

backing

bagging

clouding

clowning

clucking

codding

stinking

cooking

cracking

creaking

cunning

creeping

cribbing

dawning

digging

dilling

damning

dining

dressing

draining

drilling

dragging

ducking

earning

earring

eking

fading

feeding

feigning

filling

fining

fitting

flagging

flitting

flooding

freaking

fucking

gassing

gearing

girding

giving

grading

greening

gunning

having

heading

hiding

hilling

hitting

keeping

kenning

killing

knitting

lagging

lading

lapping

laughing

leading

leaking

leaning

leaping

learning

leasing

lining

living

looking

mapping

matting

meaning

milling

mining

nagging

napping

nodding

packing

passing

peaking

pining

pleading

plodding

pressing

pudding

quilling

racking

reading

ribbing

riding

rigging

running

sacking

screening

shearing

suspense

sagging

schilling

shading

shedding

shilling

shining

shredding

shrouding

siding

signing

sitting

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skimming

drinking

slapping

sledding

sleeping

sliding

slitting

smacking

snapping

sneaking

sniffing

speaking

stacking

steering

straining

strapping

stunning

sucking

sweeping

swimming

thinking

tacking

thrilling

tiding

trading

training

trilling

trimming

trucking

turning

twining

veering

wading

waning

wedding

weeding

weeping

whacking

willing

wording

wrecking

yearning

rambling

shoestring

aspen

bathing

bitching

blushing

breathing

brushing

catching

crashing

crushing

dashing

flashing

flushing

gushing

hatching

lashing

latching

matching

pitching

lisbon

patching

longing

pushing

stitching

switching

witching

sheathing

teething

tithing

scratching

saucepan

thrashing

checkpoints

husbands

acting

asking

basting

belting

blasting

boarding

boasting

carping

coasting

coursing

crackling

cuddling

forcing

golding

harping

casting

costing

folding

frosting

grappling

hoarding

holding

horning

hosting

melting

moulding

mourning

posting

lasting

lightning

morning

ousting

pelting

pointing

roasting

romping

sapling

scolding

seedling

shelving

smelting

tasting

toasting

warning

warping

wasting

wilding

shuffling

tackling

farthing

something

teaspoons

aspens

bulging

husband

checkpoint

fledgling

aching

airing

baking

beaming

bearing

beating

belling

blaring

blocking

boning

bracing

breaking

briefing

broking

brooding

docking

dropping

drugging

drumming

dubbing

during

dwelling

easing

eating

erring

facing

feeling

fehling

flaring

fleeting

fleming

footing

freezing

getting

glaring

jetting

quaking

racing

raking

rocking

rubbing

seating

seizing

scheming

scraping

screaming

seeling

seeming

setting

sheeting

shelling

shocking

sloping

smelling

smoking

sneezing

soaking

sopping

sparing

spelling

squeezing

stealing

stocking

stooping

stopping

streaming

striking

stroking

strutting

stuffing

swearing

sweating

sweeting

swelling

swooning

taking

talking

teaming

teeming

telling

topping

tossing

tracing

tuning

viking

voiding

waking

walking

wapping

wearing

weaving

webbing

wheeling

whooping

whopping

working

yelling

burping

butting

casing

caulking

ceiling

chasing

chirping

choking

chopping

cloaking

clocking

cocking

coming

coping

crooning

crossing

culling

curing

cutting

daring

dealing

derring

dicing

greeting

grieving

grouping

healing

hearing

heating

heaving

herring

hopping

hugging

humming

icing

jeering

jerking

joking

jutting

keeling

knocking

legging

lemming

liking

loading

loaning

looping

lopping

loving

netting

nursing

nutting

mooring

sparkling

making

meeting

mocking

mugging

pacing

pairing

paring

pegging

piping

petting

popping

puffing

pruning

plumbing

poking

pleasing

plugging

putting

bleaching

breeching

clothing

edging

etching

fetching

judging

nothing

preaching

smoothing

soothing

stretching

teaching

teaspoon

touching

washing

being

drawing

marking

morphing

crying

faulting

rifling

starling

warming

buying

storming

drying

farming

snarling

sparling

dyeing

dying

molting

fraying

starting

flying

frying

sporting

lawing

laying

lying

mowing

paying

peeing

playing

forming

golfing

malting

praying

saying

carling

seeing

stirring

trying

tying

darling

weighing

arming

bolting

carving

charming

parking

prying

vying

parting

salting

sighing

sharking

trifling

vaulting

warling

swaying

cheekbones

earthling

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bolling

booting

boozing

ailing

baiting

barring

biting

blazing

blooming

boating

booming

boring

bowling

brawling

bruting

calming

broiling

browsing

calling

chafing

climbing

clogging

closing

coating

coiling

colling

combing

cooling

craving

curling

diving

doting

doubting

driving

dueling

failing

falling

fighting

filing

firing

flaming

floating

flogging

flooring

foaming

foiling

framing

fruiting

gaming

grooming

grouting

hogging

fuming

galling

glazing

gloaming

grating

grayling

grazing

holing

homing

housing

hurling

hurting

jailing

jarring

jogging

lighting

logging

looming

loring

losing

mailing

moving

musing

muting

nosing

offing

oozing

outing

paving

phasing

phrasing

piling

plating

poling

polling

pooling

pouting

priming

prowling

railing

raising

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rising

roaring

rolling

roofing

rousing

roving

ruling

sailing

saving

scaling

scarring

schooling

serving

shaving

shirting

shooting

shoring

sighting

sizing

skirting

slating

slighting

slotting

snoring

soaring

sobbing

sperling

spurling

stalling

stating

staving

sterling

striving

suiting

stowing

tailing

tooling

trailing

tubing

veiling

voting

waiting

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whirling

whiting

wiring

writing

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yearling

beijing

aging

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cheekbone

couching

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plaything

purging

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staging

wishbone

blueing

arching

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bluing

bowing

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doing

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going

growing

lowing

owing

screwing

sewing

showing

backbones

brewing

chewing

flowing

forging

marching

scorching

knowing

suing

throwing

backbone

dogbane

3 syllable words

commanding

declining

despondent

respondent

ascending

despairing

expenses

dissenting

exceeding

reclining

discerning

glistening

listening

quickening

sickening

thickening

whispering

distracting

dispenses

responses

responsive

hispanics

accenting

backsliding

confounding

dumbfounding

importing

installing

exacting

respecting

unbending

unsparing

respondents

abounding

aspiring

concerning

degrading

departing

disguising

exciting

relapsing

invading

kidnapping

misleading

mistaking

enchanting

regarding

succeeding

presiding

reckoning

stiffening

designing

crippling

dividing

blistering

lessening

imprinting

transporting

belonging

attracting

complaining

cushioning

bickering

dissembling

suspension

pickering

excepting

exulting

imploring

improving

insulting

shipbuilding

exponents

according

campaigning

conceding

confiding

exponent

dampening

disarming

dissolving

dressmaking

easterling

lamenting

equating

inviting

trumpeting

misgiving

recording

imposing

infighting

inserting

abiding

aligning

appalling

becoming

beginning

beguiling

beholding

besetting

blustering

bushwhacking

contracting

crusading

deadening

deafening

delighting

dispensers

divining

drizzling

fastening

governing

happening

leavening

middling

opening

opining

piddling

pilfering

preceding

proceeding

repeating

retiring

reviving

riveting

scribbling

sizzling

surpassing

surrounding

suspenders

suspensions

tempering

threatening

ticketing

absorbing

broadcasting

completing

consulting

forecasting

contacting

frustrating

strengthening

unyielding

misgivings

painstaking

peppering

shimmering

tinkering

glimmering

lingering

besieging

winnowing

dispenser

fingering

suspender

accusing

alarming

approving

backbiting

bookkeeping

bullfighting

carpeting

complying

bumbling

composing

darkening

conserving

consoling

consuming

decreasing

defusing

dwindling

emptying

forwarding

incoming

housewarming

misshapen

mumbling

resisting

nerve-racking

sleepwalking

tumbling

trembling

outpouring

revolving

rumbling

uprising

upsetting

withering

asserting

ballooning

believing

adoring

appealing

assuming

befitting

blundering

bubbling

bustling

channeling

concurring

deserving

detailing

doubling

emitting

ensuing

factoring

juggling

laundering

leveling

lumbering

meddling

muscling

paneling

peddling

pervading

bungling

opposing

plastering

pondering

prevailing

relieving

rendering

bookbinders

warehousing

reversing

seducing

settling

thundering

undoing

approaching

obliging

undying

teaspoonful

twinkling

visiting

tinkling

wandering

exhausting

existing

increasing

investing

thanksgiving

handwriting

disgusting

enclosing

rejoicing

sojourning

arranging

beseeching

bookbinder

vanishing

adjoining

wrongdoing

finishing

machining

canoeing

buffeting

carrying

chattering

coloring

diapering

covering

flattering

journeying

lettering

shadowing

scattering

smattering

papering

escapement

pitying

ironing

annoying

echoing

bettering

suffering

stuttering

battering

billowing

tapering

blackmailing

counseling

downsizing

erecting

badgering

butchering

bloodletting

interesting

issuing

landscaping

measuring

bundling

mothering

nourishing

amusing

endearing

comforting

thespian

commuting

weathering

erupting

fondling

foreboding

feathering

gathering

housekeeping

lactating

observing

offsetting

parceling

patrolling

persisting

railroading

revolting

scaffolding

surprising

typesetting

typewriting

underling

scavenging

carjacking

challenging

husbandry

blanketing

disappoints

everything

refreshing

agreeing

alerting

alluring

amazing

annealing

arresting

battening

baffling

blossoming

cackling

centering

colouring

conveying

faltering

correcting

cycling

debating

entering

forbidding

freewheeling

distressing

landholding

afflicting

enlisting

reflecting

highflying

engrossing

maddening

galloping

locating

engraving

ongoing

polluting

raveling

reasoning

reducing

seasoning

sweetening

well-being

whitening

convincing

outlying

traversing

enduring

perplexing

profiling

surviving

ravishing

disappoint

polishing

assuring

maturing

anything

conquering

conjuring

forthcoming

occupants

admiring

gambling

motoring

soldering

surveying

affecting

connecting

enticing

varying

dissecting

marketing

arriving

watering

yellowing

conflicting

eavesdropping

bullying

doddering

seagoing

oncoming

dairying

carousing

copying

favoring

pronouncing

groundbreaking

unfailing

caressing

unfeeling

flavoring

languishing

scrambling

jockeying

laboring

mellowing

murmuring

narrowing

neighboring

neutering

offering

powdering

tailoring

brainwashing

unflinching

engaging

crocheting

occupant

jacobin

converging

lesbian

matchmaking

wagering

abducting

conforming

confusing

constricting

cowering

diverting

flowering

forgiving

glowering

hairdressing

harvesting

layering

lightening

lowering

ordering

outgoing

promising

provoking

shoplifting

shortcoming

softening

souring

tormenting

towering

churchgoing

lesbians

damaging

soldiering

equipment

bloodsucking

gardening

good-looking

hardening

life-giving

networking

outfitting

pardoning

shortening

unwilling

achievements

unthinking

unwitting

dialing

following

toweling

saxophones

equipments

marshaling

vagabonds

jacobine

achievement

bottling

cradling

lawmaking

modeling

mottling

profiting

quarreling

tabling

vomiting

saxophone

vagabond

childbearing

hardworking

heartbreaking

diverging

megaphones

megaphone

4 syllable words

expandable

understanding

notwithstanding

corresponding

expenditure

disappointing

never-ending

expenditures

disparaging

despondency

condescending

disapproving

dispiriting

everlasting

examining

inquiring

disabling

disappearing

disappointed

discouraging

dispensation

encompassing

executing

fingerprinting

petitioning

separating

dispensary

maximizing

devastating

interlocking

disheartening

fascinating

detonating

dispensable

awakening

disengaging

fluctuating

mitigating

overpowering

legislating

occupying

irritating

overlapping

inhibiting

bewildering

inheriting

partitioning

integrating

disconcerting

enterprising

realizing

registering

edifying

liberating

operating

speechifying

patronizing

palpitating

waterproofing

activating

circulating

disappointment

distributing

responsible

exponential

merchandising

dominating

disappointments

delegating

developing

hesitating

nonrecurring

oscillating

overrating

appetizing

vacillating

unassuming

espionage

bicycling

fireproofing

lesbianism

calculating

occupancy

oceangoing

overarching

parachuting

overlying

reentering

denigrating

unbecoming

coexisting

barbecuing

emphasizing

enveloping

dysfunctional

agonizing

implicating

annotating

diagnosing

laminating

overflowing

overruling

rejuvenate

suffocating

underlying

cacophony

underwriting

encircling

unremitting

undertaking

underpinning

embarrassing

notifying

captivating

mountaineering

interviewing

gratifying

conditioning

overcoming

unavailing

intersecting

complicating

jacobean

maccabean

agitating

energizing

acupuncture

pioneering

aggravating

moderating

advertising

enlightening

rejuvenates

unbelieving

entertaining

penetrating

undulating

admonishing

astonishing

centralizing

distinguishing

unrelenting

obviating

domineering

persevering

babysitting

encouraging

overhauling

recipients

overwhelming

recipient

engineering

overbearing

Words that rhyme with the word expanding

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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