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

cooking

looking

bucking

clucking

curing

ducking

during

footing

fucking

kicking

licking

mooring

picking

pudding

sticking

sucking

ticking

tricking

trucking

wrecking

pushing

buckling

duckling

fixing

heckling

pickings

suckling

aching

airing

backing

baking

bearing

bedding

belling

bidding

billing

blaring

blessing

blocking

blooming

booming

booting

boozing

breaking

brimming

broking

brooding

bruting

budding

butting

caulking

chilling

chipping

choking

clearing

clipping

cloaking

clocking

cocking

coming

cooling

cracking

creaking

cribbing

crooning

culling

cunning

cutting

daring

derring

digging

dilling

dipping

docking

dressing

drilling

dripping

drugging

drumming

dubbing

dueling

dwelling

earring

eking

erring

fehling

filling

fitting

flaring

fleming

flitting

flooding

freaking

fruiting

fuming

gearing

getting

ginning

giving

glaring

grooming

grouping

gunning

heading

herring

hilling

hissing

hitting

hugging

humming

inning

jerking

jetting

joking

jutting

kenning

killing

knitting

knocking

leaking

legging

lemming

liking

living

looming

looping

losing

loving

making

milling

missing

mocking

moving

mugging

musing

muting

netting

nipping

nutting

oozing

packing

pairing

paring

peaking

pegging

petting

plugging

plumbing

poking

pooling

pressing

pruning

puffing

putting

quaking

quilling

racking

raking

ribbing

rigging

rocking

roofing

rubbing

ruling

running

sacking

schilling

schooling

setting

shearing

shedding

shelling

shilling

shipping

shocking

shooting

shredding

sitting

skilling

skimming

sledding

slitting

smacking

smelling

smoking

sneaking

sniffing

soaking

sparing

speaking

spelling

spinning

stacking

steering

stocking

stooping

striking

stripping

stroking

strutting

stuffing

stunning

suiting

swearing

sweating

swelling

swimming

swooning

tacking

taking

talking

telling

thrilling

tipping

tooling

trilling

trimming

tripping

tubing

tuning

veering

viking

waking

walking

wearing

webbing

wedding

whacking

whipping

whooping

willing

winning

working

yelling

Near RhymesHere is a list of the words that nearly rhyme with the word looking.
2 syllable words

bushings

drinking

shrinking

sinking

stinking

thinking

blueing

bluing

brewing

chewing

cooing

doing

screwing

suing

akins

bitching

blushing

brushing

crushing

dishing

edging

etching

fetching

fishing

flushing

gushing

judging

likins

nothing

pitching

ringing

singing

smoothing

soothing

springing

stinging

stitching

stretching

switching

touching

wishing

witching

wringing

fixings

acting

asking

belting

bending

blending

boxing

breasting

building

bunting

coaxing

coupling

crackling

cresting

cuddling

dockings

ending

fencing

funding

leggings

gilding

glinting

hunting

helping

jumping

kipling

lending

inkling

lifting

listing

lumping

sprinkling

makings

marking

melting

mincing

muggings

musings

parking

pelting

pending

piercing

pimping

printing

pumping

quilting

resting

riggings

scrimping

sharking

shelving

shifting

shuffling

shunting

sibling

smelting

spending

squinting

stripling

tackling

takings

testing

thrusting

thumping

tilting

trusting

twisting

vesting

vikings

weakling

whitling

wincing

wrestling

whistling

ailing

awning

bagging

baiting

barring

batting

beading

beaming

beating

biding

biting

blazing

bleeding

bleeping

boating

boiling

bolling

boning

boring

bowling

bracing

braiding

braving

brawling

breeding

briefing

broiling

browning

browsing

burning

burping

calling

calming

caning

casing

ceiling

chafing

chasing

chirping

chopping

churning

cleaning

climbing

clogging

closing

clouding

clowning

coating

codding

coiling

colling

combing

coping

craving

creeping

crossing

curling

damning

dawning

dealing

dicing

dining

diving

doting

doubting

dragging

draining

driving

dropping

earning

easing

eating

facing

fading

failing

falling

feeding

feeling

feigning

fighting

filing

fining

firing

flagging

flaming

fleeting

floating

flogging

flooring

foaming

foiling

framing

freezing

gadding

galling

gaming

gassing

girding

glazing

gloaming

grading

grating

grayling

grazing

greening

greeting

grieving

grouting

having

healing

hearing

heating

heaving

hiding

hogging

holing

homing

hopping

housing

hurling

hurting

icing

jailing

jarring

jeering

jogging

keeling

keeping

lading

lagging

lapping

laughing

leading

leaning

leaping

learning

leasing

lighting

lining

loading

loaning

logging

lopping

loring

madding

mailing

mapping

matting

meaning

meeting

mining

nagging

napping

nodding

nosing

nursing

offing

outing

pacing

padding

panning

passing

paving

phasing

phrasing

piling

pining

piping

plating

pleading

pleasing

plodding

poling

polling

popping

pouting

priming

prowling

racing

railing

raising

raving

reading

riding

rising

roaring

rolling

rousing

roving

sagging

sailing

saving

scaling

scarring

scheming

scraping

screaming

screening

seating

seeling

seeming

seizing

serving

shading

shaving

sheeting

shining

shirting

shoring

shrouding

siding

sighting

signing

sizing

skirting

slapping

slating

sleeping

sliding

slighting

sloping

slotting

snapping

sneezing

snoring

soaring

sobbing

sopping

sperling

spurling

squeezing

stalling

stating

staving

stealing

sterling

stopping

stowing

straining

strapping

streaming

striving

sweeping

sweeting

tailing

tanning

teaming

teeming

tiding

topping

tossing

tracing

trading

trailing

training

turning

twining

veiling

voiding

voting

wading

waiting

walling

waning

wapping

weaving

weeding

weeping

whaling

wheeling

whirling

whiting

whopping

wiring

wording

writing

yachting

yearling

yearning

banking

bulging

earthling

fledgling

franking

lunching

nanking

pinching

planking

something

spanking

succinct

aging

banging

bathing

beckons

begins

beijing

being

biggins

birthing

bleaching

blowing

bowing

breathing

breeching

buying

catching

chickens

clanging

clothing

coaching

couching

crashing

crowing

crying

dashing

drawing

drying

dumpling

dyeing

dying

flashing

flowing

flying

fraying

frying

glowing

going

growing

hanging

hatching

kindling

knowing

lakins

lashing

latching

lawing

laying

loathing

lodging

longing

lowing

lying

matching

merging

mowing

nestling

owing

paging

patching

paying

peeing

picnic

playing

plaything

praying

preaching

prying

purging

quickens

raging

reckons

saying

scratching

searching

seeing

sewing

sheathing

shoestring

showing

sighing

slouching

sparkling

staging

stirring

swaying

teaching

technic

teething

tempting

thickens

thrashing

throwing

tithing

trying

tying

vying

washing

weighing

westling

pigskins

buckskins

arming

banding

basting

binding

blasting

blinding

boarding

boasting

bolting

bonding

bouncing

bounding

camping

carling

carping

carving

casings

casting

chanting

charming

coasting

costing

coursing

cushions

dancing

darling

daunting

drafting

evening

facings

fainting

farming

faulting

fielding

finding

folding

forcing

forming

founding

frosting

glancing

golding

golfing

grafting

grappling

grasping

grinding

grounding

harping

hoarding

holding

horning

hosting

hounding

housings

lamping

landing

lasting

lightning

malting

minding

molting

morning

morphing

moulding

mounting

mourning

ousting

painting

panting

parting

planting

pointing

posting

pouncing

pounding

rafting

rifling

roasting

romping

rounding

salting

sapling

scalping

scolding

seedling

shafting

slanting

snarling

sounding

sparling

sporting

stamping

standing

starling

starting

storming

straddling

tamping

tasting

taunting

toasting

trifling

vaulting

wanting

warling

warming

warning

warping

wasting

wielding

wilding

winding

yielding

wellspring

arching

branching

farthing

forging

marching

picnics

lashings

launching

scorching

teachings

technics

foundling

groundling

handling

rambling

beacons

becomes

cocoons

cousins

deacons

dozens

essence

lessens

lessons

lichens

likens

loosens

lykens

nuisance

pecans

resins

technique

tokens

toughens

vegans

weakens

angling

machines

russians

sessions

offspring

hamstring

against

askance

gascons

sequence

sequins

saxons

techniques

vaccines

exchange

basins

caissons

lagoons

license

cosens

eggnog

icons

magness

poisons

masons

peacenik

raccoons

raisins

reasons

seasons

wagons

tycoons

asians

regions

cajuns

lesions

lozenge

passions

fashions

legions

oceans

regimes

licensed

maxims

eggnogs

exhumes

assumes

bygones

cuisines

hogans

pygmies

racemes

mesons

regains

pigeons

visions

missions

rejoins

legumes

vacuums

dismays

isms

possums

resumes

rhizomes

schisms

mishmash

cognac

3 syllable words

bickering

bullying

echoing

pickering

butchering

bookkeeping

good-looking

concurring

quickening

sickening

thickening

correcting

ticketing

provoking

reckoning

alluring

becoming

bushwhacking

annoying

bettering

billowing

buffeting

canoeing

caressing

coloring

covering

dairying

dialing

glimmering

jockeying

lettering

mellowing

narrowing

neutering

peppering

pitying

shimmering

stuttering

suffering

toweling

tinkering

yellowing

maturing

varying

assuring

winnowing

cushioning

according

accusing

affecting

badgering

bloodsucking

bullfighting

connecting

cowering

crocheting

declining

decreasing

dissecting

dressmaking

equating

erecting

exceeding

exciting

feathering

flowering

gathering

glowering

incoming

issuing

layering

lowering

measuring

mistaking

mothering

networking

nourishing

reclining

recording

souring

succeeding

towering

wagering

weathering

withering

abiding

adoring

agreeing

alerting

aligning

amazing

annealing

appalling

appealing

arresting

asserting

assuming

detailing

discerning

dividing

divining

doubling

drizzling

emitting

ensuing

entering

forbidding

forgiving

galloping

glistening

governing

happening

leavening

lessening

leveling

lightening

listening

locating

lumbering

maddening

meddling

middling

modeling

mottling

muscling

opening

opposing

paneling

peddling

piddling

pilfering

polluting

presiding

prevailing

proceeding

profiting

promising

quarreling

raveling

reasoning

reducing

relieving

rendering

repeating

retiring

reversing

traversing

undoing

undying

visiting

vomiting

whispering

carjacking

well-being

whitening

matchmaking

baffling

ballooning

battening

befitting

beginning

beguiling

believing

besetting

blistering

blossoming

blundering

blustering

bottling

bubbling

bustling

cackling

centering

channeling

colouring

conveying

cradling

crippling

crusading

cycling

deadening

deafening

debating

delighting

deserving

designing

factoring

fastening

jokingly

scribbling

settling

softening

stiffening

sweetening

threatening

tinkling

seasoning

seducing

sizzling

tabling

thundering

twinkling

juggling

lawmaking

reviving

riveting

tempering

abducting

afflicting

attracting

enclosing

enduring

exacting

excepting

expelling

expiring

increasing

perplexing

reflecting

respecting

adjoining

anything

belonging

besieging

churchgoing

conjuring

conquering

damaging

fingering

finishing

lingering

machining

pachinko

polishing

ravishing

rejoicing

sojourning

soldiering

vanishing

arriving

carousing

battering

carrying

flavoring

following

ironing

chattering

diapering

flattering

copying

doddering

journeying

forthcoming

favoring

laboring

murmuring

neighboring

offering

papering

powdering

motoring

scattering

seagoing

shadowing

smattering

soldering

surveying

tailoring

tapering

watering

abounding

alarming

amusing

approving

ascending

aspiring

backbiting

blackmailing

bloodletting

bumbling

bundling

carpeting

comforting

commanding

commuting

complying

composing

conceding

concerning

confiding

conserving

consoling

consuming

counseling

dampening

darkening

defusing

degrading

departing

descending

despairing

disarming

disengage

disguising

dissenting

dissolving

dwindling

emptying

endearing

enticing

erupting

fondling

gambling

gardening

hardening

housekeeping

imposing

infighting

inserting

invading

inviting

kidnapping

lactating

lamenting

life-giving

marketing

misgiving

misleading

mumbling

nerve-racking

observing

offsetting

oncoming

outfitting

parceling

pardoning

patrolling

persisting

pronouncing

regarding

relapsing

resisting

rumbling

scaffolding

scrambling

shortening

sleepwalking

technician

trembling

trumpeting

tumbling

typesetting

underling

unfailing

unfeeling

unwilling

unwitting

uprising

upsetting

mechanic

distracting

mackenzie

exploring

unthinking

mechanize

conflicting

expanding

approaching

beholding

blanketing

bungling

challenging

converging

engaging

everything

marshaling

obliging

packinghouse

refreshing

scavenging

warehousing

diverting

eugenic

highflying

faltering

freewheeling

laundering

opining

ordering

laughingly

ongoing

outgoing

outlying

pervading

plastering

pondering

preceding

profiling

surpassing

surrounding

surviving

wandering

absorbing

accenting

astounding

backsliding

broadcasting

childbearing

complaining

completing

compounding

conforming

confounding

confusing

consulting

contacting

convincing

disengaged

disgusting

dissembling

distressing

dumbfounding

engraving

engrossing

enlisting

exhausting

existing

exulting

forecasting

frustrating

hairdressing

hardworking

harvesting

impending

imploring

importing

improving

inspiring

installing

insulting

investing

misspelling

painstaking

shipbuilding

shoplifting

shortcoming

strengthening

technicians

tormenting

unbending

unsparing

unyielding

constricting

nuisances

beseeching

enchanting

arranging

diverging

mechanics

reconcile

technical

wrongdoing

awakens

admiring

campaigning

easterling

foreboding

groundbreaking

downsizing

landscaping

languishing

forwarding

railroading

heartbreaking

housewarming

outpouring

revolting

revolving

surprising

contracting

typewriting

imprinting

interesting

bookmaker

brainwashing

casinos

disconcert

disincline

laconic

landholding

masonic

misconceive

reconciles

technicals

thanksgiving

unflinching

vacancy

handwriting

messenger

reconquer

laughingstock

agonist

axioms

bassoonist

bookmakers

exchanger

dismissal

dismisses

dismissive

eskimos

licenses

likenesses

misconstrue

vacancies

eavesdropping

outstanding

transporting

ascension

asuncion

machinist

messengers

exchangers

exchanges

misconstrues

agonists

businesslike

cognizance

cognizant

dismissals

equinox

pessimists

technocrat

sequences

agonize

agonies

decency

licensee

licenser

machinists

agency

cogency

licensure

passenger

regency

technocrats

weaknesses

licensees

hygienist

maximize

agonized

pessimist

lozenges

agencies

eugenics

passengers

hygienists

agnostic

agincourt

diagnose

disconnects

liaisons

museums

fijians

issuance

begonias

businesses

dishonest

iguanas

magnesite

pacemakers

peacemakers

dissension

businessman

disconnect

taskmaster

agnostics

deconstruct

pacemaker

peacemaker

reconstruct

magnesia

4 syllable words

suffocating

awakening

inquiring

bicycling

nonrecurring

discouraging

encouraging

edifying

gratifying

liberating

notifying

pioneering

realizing

reentering

separating

barbecuing

unbecoming

interlocking

encircling

undertaking

speechifying

fluctuating

agonizing

annotating

appetizing

babysitting

bewildering

delegating

detonating

developing

diagnosing

disabling

disappearing

dominating

domineering

fascinating

fireproofing

hesitating

irritating

laminating

mitigating

never-ending

occupying

oscillating

overbearing

overcoming

overruling

persevering

unassuming

unavailing

underlying

vacillating

intersecting

complicating

disconcerting

encompassing

implicating

executing

oceangoing

agitating

overhauling

energizing

parachuting

petitioning

registering

activating

aggravating

captivating

circulating

coexisting

denigrating

devastating

disappointing

disapproving

dispiriting

embarrassing

emphasizing

enlightening

entertaining

enveloping

everlasting

examining

interviewing

maximizing

moderating

mountaineering

operating

overlying

overwhelming

palpitating

patronizing

penetrating

unbelieving

underpinning

underwriting

unremitting

waterproofing

admonishing

disparaging

technically

technicolor

astonishing

conditioning

disengaging

engineering

inhibiting

legislating

inheriting

merchandising

partitioning

mechanical

mechanically

mechanism

undulating

enterprising

unrelenting

corresponding

condescending

centralizing

integrating

calculating

obviating

overrating

overflowing

overlapping

overpowering

mechanisms

overarching

disheartening

disengagement

distributing

messianic

understanding

fingerprinting

advertising

oceanic

distinguishing

disconnected

businesswoman

notwithstanding

agonizes

reconsider

disconnection

paganism

pessimism

issuances

maximizes

diagnostic

pessimistic

misconception

exchangeable

reconstructive

deconstruction

disenchantment

misconceptions

reconstruction

reconstructions

diagnoses

iconoclast

dishonesty

dishonestly

desensitize

desensitized

diagnostics

magnesium

Words that rhyme with the word looking

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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