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

fledgling

wellspring

crashing

blushing

brushing

crushing

dashing

dishing

edging

etching

fetching

flashing

flushing

gushing

lashing

pushing

stretching

fishing

thrashing

wishing

tempting

casting

whistling

grasping

bunting

ending

fencing

funding

asking

basting

belting

bending

blasting

blending

heckling

helping

hunting

lasting

lending

listing

melting

pelting

pending

shelving

shunting

smelting

tasting

spending

thrusting

trusting

twisting

wasting

airing

bedding

belling

awning

bearing

blaring

bucking

budding

bracing

browning

burning

butting

caning

casing

chasing

churning

clowning

clucking

coming

culling

cutting

daring

dawning

derring

dining

draining

drugging

drumming

dubbing

ducking

dwelling

earning

erring

facing

fehling

feigning

fining

flaring

fleming

flooding

fucking

gassing

hissing

hugging

humming

getting

ginning

glaring

herring

inning

heading

jetting

jutting

learning

legging

lemming

lining

loving

mining

missing

mugging

netting

nursing

nutting

pacing

pairing

panning

paring

passing

pegging

petting

pining

plugging

plumbing

puffing

putting

racing

rubbing

setting

shedding

shelling

shining

shredding

signing

sledding

smelling

sparing

spelling

spinning

straining

strutting

stuffing

sucking

swearing

sweating

swelling

tanning

telling

tracing

training

trucking

turning

twining

waning

wearing

webbing

wedding

winning

wrecking

yearning

yelling

lunching

hamstring

banging

bitching

chessman

clanging

hanging

judging

lignin

longing

nothing

pitching

ringing

singing

springing

stinging

stitching

switching

touching

washing

witching

wringing

shoestring

rambling

acting

banding

basements

binding

blinding

boasting

bonding

bounding

buckling

building

camping

chanting

coasting

costing

coupling

crackling

cuddling

dancing

daunting

drafting

duckling

evening

fainting

finding

fixing

founding

frosting

gilding

glancing

glinting

grafting

grappling

grinding

grounding

horning

hosting

hounding

jumping

kipling

lamping

landing

lifting

lightning

lumping

mincing

minding

morning

mounting

mourning

ousting

painting

panting

piercing

pimping

planting

posting

pounding

printing

pumping

quilting

rafting

roasting

rounding

sapling

scalping

scrimping

segments

shafting

shifting

shuffling

sibling

signings

slanting

sounding

squinting

stamping

standing

straddling

stripling

suckling

tackling

tamping

taunting

thumping

tilting

toasting

wanting

warning

whitling

wincing

winding

basement

batting

banking

branching

aching

billing

bidding

offspring

launching

nanking

ailing

pinching

planking

segment

shrinking

backing

bagging

baiting

baking

something

spanking

sinking

blazing

chilling

bulging

braving

chafing

drinking

boning

braiding

breaking

burping

earthling

brimming

thinking

chipping

chirping

cleaning

cribbing

damning

cooking

clipping

clearing

cracking

craving

crooning

crossing

curing

curling

dicing

digging

dilling

dipping

dragging

drilling

dripping

during

earring

fading

failing

filling

fitting

flagging

flaming

flitting

footing

framing

gadding

gaming

gearing

girding

giving

glazing

grading

grating

grayling

grazing

greening

having

hilling

hitting

hurling

hurting

icing

jailing

jerking

kicking

killing

knitting

lading

lagging

lapping

laughing

leaning

leasing

licking

living

loaning

looking

madding

mailing

making

mapping

matting

meaning

milling

nagging

napping

nipping

stinking

mooring

packing

padding

paving

phasing

phrasing

picking

plating

pruning

quaking

racking

railing

raising

franking

pudding

quilling

raking

raving

ribbing

rigging

sacking

sagging

sailing

saving

scaling

schilling

scraping

screening

shading

shaving

shearing

shilling

serving

shipping

shirting

sitting

skilling

skimming

skirting

slapping

slating

slitting

smacking

snapping

sniffing

sperling

spurling

stacking

stating

staving

steering

sterling

sticking

strapping

stripping

swimming

swooning

tacking

tailing

taking

thrilling

ticking

tipping

tossing

trading

trailing

tricking

trilling

trimming

tripping

tuning

veering

veiling

wading

waiting

waking

whacking

whaling

whipping

whirling

willing

wording

working

yearling

handling

foundling

groundling

dumpling

kindling

sparkling

aging

beijing

birthing

catching

desman

bathing

latching

hatching

matching

merging

paging

passman

patching

plaything

purging

raging

scratching

searching

staging

crying

drying

dying

buying

dyeing

drawing

pigments

flying

fraying

lawing

prying

sighing

saying

laying

swaying

paying

angling

praying

weighing

lying

playing

inkling

frying

tying

trying

stirring

sprinkling

mowing

vying

arming

boarding

bolting

bouncing

boxing

bushman

carling

carping

carving

charming

coaxing

coursing

darling

farming

faulting

fielding

folding

forcing

forming

golding

golfing

harping

hoarding

holding

malting

marking

molting

morphing

moulding

parking

parting

pointing

pouncing

rifling

romping

salting

scolding

seedling

sharking

snarling

sparling

sporting

starling

starting

storming

trifling

vaulting

warling

warming

warping

weakling

wilding

yielding

wielding

figment

mignons

osmund

pigment

biding

barring

beading

beaming

beating

biting

bleeding

bleeping

blocking

blooming

boating

bolling

booming

booting

boiling

boozing

calling

brawling

boring

bowling

breeding

briefing

broiling

broking

brooding

browsing

bruting

calming

caulking

ceiling

choking

chopping

climbing

cloaking

clocking

clogging

closing

clouding

coating

cocking

codding

coiling

colling

combing

cooling

coping

creaking

creeping

dealing

diving

docking

doting

doubting

driving

dropping

dueling

easing

eating

eking

falling

feeding

feeling

fighting

filing

firing

fleeting

floating

flogging

flooring

foaming

foiling

gloaming

freaking

freezing

greeting

grieving

fruiting

fuming

galling

grooming

grouping

grouting

holing

jarring

jogging

healing

hearing

heating

heaving

hiding

hogging

homing

hopping

housing

jeering

joking

keeping

knocking

leaking

leaping

keeling

leading

lighting

liking

loading

logging

looming

looping

lopping

loring

mocking

moving

musing

losing

meeting

muting

nodding

nosing

offing

oozing

outing

peaking

piling

piping

pleading

pleasing

plodding

riding

rising

roaring

rocking

rolling

roofing

rousing

roving

ruling

scarring

scheming

schooling

screaming

seating

seeling

seeming

shocking

shooting

poking

poling

polling

pooling

popping

pouting

priming

reading

prowling

seizing

shoring

sheeting

shrouding

siding

sighting

sizing

sleeping

sliding

slighting

sloping

slotting

smoking

sneaking

sneezing

snoring

soaking

soaring

sobbing

sopping

speaking

squeezing

stalling

stealing

stocking

stooping

stopping

stowing

streaming

striking

striving

stroking

suiting

sweeping

sweeting

talking

teaming

teeming

tiding

tooling

topping

tubing

viking

voiding

voting

walking

walling

wapping

weaving

weeding

weeping

wheeling

whiting

whooping

whopping

wiring

writing

yachting

bagman

bleaching

bookman

breathing

coaching

jackman

jasmine

loathing

breeching

clothing

couching

houseman

lodging

mignon

preaching

sheathing

slouching

smoothing

soothing

teaching

tithing

teething

packman

figments

being

bowing

chewing

cooing

crowing

doing

glowing

going

showing

owing

peeing

blowing

bluing

blueing

brewing

flowing

growing

knowing

lowing

screwing

seeing

sewing

suing

throwing

coachman

arching

easement

farthing

forging

marching

poignant

scorching

hackman

iceman

nickname

lockman

magnum

nicknames

newsman

augment

3 syllable words

challenging

scavenging

belonging

dissonance

dissonant

machining

resonance

resonant

consulting

excepting

astounding

disgusting

insulting

aspiring

bumbling

bundling

concerning

issuing

measuring

beginnings

counseling

feathering

weathering

darkening

declining

despairing

asinine

disarming

dressmaking

enticing

nourishing

disguising

dwindling

exciting

gambling

gardening

hardening

incoming

misgiving

mumbling

parceling

pardoning

reclining

rumbling

scaffolding

scrambling

seasonings

shortening

trumpeting

tumbling

enchanting

arresting

asserting

assuming

ballooning

befitting

beguiling

blistering

blustering

bottling

centering

cycling

delighting

dividing

emitting

ensuing

entering

governing

modeling

mottling

opining

plastering

presiding

proceeding

profiting

promising

quarreling

rendering

retiring

reviving

surrounding

surviving

tempering

visiting

vomiting

well-being

whispering

whitening

marshaling

tinkling

twinkling

warehousing

expanding

blanketing

bungling

bushwhacking

arriving

canoeing

caressing

carousing

dialing

toweling

varying

bettering

annoying

dairying

echoing

lettering

mellowing

narrowing

peppering

yellowing

enduring

adjoining

expiring

installing

misspelling

inspiring

assuring

besieging

abducting

exulting

anything

ravishing

dissembling

recommend

backsliding

admiring

backbiting

bullfighting

campaigning

carpeting

departing

dissolving

downsizing

emptying

endearing

erupting

exceeding

fondling

good-looking

housewarming

inserting

kidnapping

marketing

nerve-racking

networking

misleading

mismanage

mistaking

oncoming

relapsing

butchering

persisting

forthcoming

withering

regarding

surprising

succeeding

annealing

believing

blundering

concurring

conveying

correcting

crusading

deserving

detailing

distracting

engaging

everything

exploring

factoring

imprinting

matchmaking

outstanding

pervading

pilfering

preceding

prevailing

profiling

recommends

refreshing

relieving

repeating

segmented

thundering

transporting

undoing

undying

painstaking

arranging

sojourning

battering

bickering

handwriting

covering

polishing

billowing

beseeching

glimmering

ironing

journeying

laboring

murmuring

neighboring

shimmering

investing

pickering

pitying

shadowing

shipbuilding

papering

scattering

smattering

importing

winnowing

imploring

maximum

rejoicing

shortcoming

buffeting

examine

bullying

chattering

enclosing

carrying

enlisting

exacting

thanksgiving

favoring

tailoring

tapering

flattering

flavoring

suffering

surveying

coloring

damaging

complaining

churchgoing

frustrating

stuttering

affecting

blackmailing

confiding

dissecting

housekeeping

imposing

outpouring

railroading

resisting

revolving

sleepwalking

typewriting

underling

unfailing

unfeeling

unwilling

unwitting

badgering

conceding

mothering

abounding

bookkeeping

commanding

gathering

connecting

conserving

consoling

degrading

defusing

consuming

wagering

easterling

lamenting

pronouncing

equating

erecting

lactating

landscaping

languishing

layering

beholding

colouring

debating

opposing

ongoing

outgoing

outlying

converging

polluting

pondering

wandering

provoking

adoring

brainwashing

abiding

agreeing

alerting

alluring

amazing

freewheeling

appalling

appealing

forbidding

forgiving

highflying

laundering

lumbering

reversing

surpassing

reducing

seducing

traversing

landholding

broadcasting

tinkering

accenting

compounding

conforming

vanishing

wrongdoing

confounding

confusing

contacting

convincing

distressing

dumbfounding

exhausting

existing

forecasting

hairdressing

harvesting

impending

improving

perplexing

reflecting

regiments

respecting

fingering

lingering

tormenting

unbending

unsparing

maturing

unyielding

conquering

finishing

high-minded

copying

following

jockeying

seagoing

infighting

approving

alarming

amusing

foreboding

comforting

commuting

accusing

according

composing

complying

upsetting

uprising

typesetting

decreasing

bloodletting

observing

offsetting

patrolling

revolting

recording

regimens

regiment

invading

inviting

conflicting

contracting

eavesdropping

interesting

crocheting

unthinking

approaching

unflinching

carjacking

document

ligaments

obliging

flowering

glowering

cowering

lowering

souring

regimen

towering

lawmaking

locating

diverting

completing

absorbing

constricting

attracting

childbearing

afflicting

shoplifting

increasing

engraving

engrossing

expelling

dismember

documents

diverging

ligament

soldiering

conjuring

cosmonaut

poignancy

diapering

doddering

forwarding

groundbreaking

life-giving

motoring

neutering

offering

outfitting

powdering

soldering

watering

misnomer

cosmonauts

disunion

examines

fishmonger

poignantly

hardworking

faltering

ordering

backgammon

dismantles

bosnians

acumen

pigmented

heartbreaking

dismantle

bosnian

bogeyman

osmium

4 syllable words

edifying

petitioning

encircling

disappointing

enlightening

agonizing

awakening

delegating

developing

hesitating

disabling

disappearing

laminating

persevering

vacillating

never-ending

conditioning

engineering

partitioning

discouraging

gratifying

oceangoing

parachuting

disconcerting

executing

maximizing

disheartening

embarrassing

enveloping

disapproving

emphasizing

patronizing

examining

penetrating

annotating

suffocating

merchandising

mitigating

dominating

oscillating

astonishing

appetizing

babysitting

irritating

bicycling

inheriting

domineering

overcoming

disengaging

unavailing

agitating

centralizing

condescending

corresponding

encompassing

encouraging

energizing

notifying

pioneering

registering

separating

palpitating

speechifying

aggravating

entertaining

activating

devastating

dispiriting

underpinning

unbecoming

unbelieving

circulating

admonishing

disparaging

fluctuating

inhibiting

undulating

legislating

occupying

unassuming

diagnosing

bewildering

overlapping

overpowering

calculating

enterprising

integrating

segmentation

overlying

liberating

realizing

hegemony

reentering

notwithstanding

advertising

captivating

mismanages

mountaineering

regimental

everlasting

disseminate

taxonomy

distributing

fireproofing

overflowing

overrating

overruling

underlying

implicating

complicating

pigmentation

disseminates

examiners

overarching

overhauling

taxonomies

coexisting

denigrating

waterproofing

moderating

operating

barbecuing

overwhelming

undertaking

underwriting

unremitting

economies

augmentable

inquiring

overbearing

unrelenting

nonrecurring

intersecting

economy

interlocking

interviewing

understanding

economize

examiner

ignominy

reexamine

augmentation

distinguishing

dismemberment

obviating

mismanagement

fingerprinting

tasmanian

economists

economist

Words that rhyme with the word lessening

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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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