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

acting

tempting

belting

blasting

breasting

bunting

casting

grafting

shafting

pelting

hunting

planting

lasting

melting

panting

chanting

crackling

cresting

drafting

rafting

resting

shunting

slanting

smelting

testing

tackling

vesting

trusting

thrusting

hamstring

backing

earthling

baiting

batting

jutting

biting

butting

cracking

cutting

fighting

getting

grating

having

jetting

lighting

loving

matting

netting

nutting

packing

petting

plating

putting

racking

sacking

setting

sighting

slating

slighting

waiting

slotting

stating

something

strutting

smacking

stacking

sweating

tacking

whacking

whiting

writing

yachting

branching

dumpling

handling

nestling

rambling

westling

active

dashing

birthing

catching

crashing

flashing

hatching

lashing

latching

nothing

plaything

scratching

patching

thrashing

matching

angling

asking

banding

bending

blending

cuddling

fencing

daunting

frosting

funding

basting

carving

ending

faulting

camping

duckling

boxing

coupling

buckling

dancing

fainting

grappling

costing

glancing

glinting

grasping

heckling

helping

jumping

lifting

lamping

landing

lending

lightning

listing

lumping

ousting

parting

mounting

malting

painting

pending

printing

pumping

quilting

salting

sapling

scalping

shelving

shifting

shuffling

spending

sporting

squinting

stamping

standing

starting

straddling

suckling

tamping

tasting

taunting

thumping

tilting

twisting

vaulting

wanting

wasting

wrestling

banking

arching

offspring

bulging

wellspring

farthing

fledgling

franking

marching

dustbin

forging

launching

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nanking

planking

scorching

spanking

tactful

baking

bearing

beating

blazing

ailing

airing

bagging

bedding

belling

biding

blaring

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aching

blocking

bracing

braiding

braving

breaking

bucking

budding

caning

casing

caulking

chafing

chasing

climbing

clocking

clucking

cocking

coming

craving

culling

cunning

damning

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derring

dicing

dining

diving

docking

doubting

dragging

draining

dressing

driving

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erring

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fehling

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flaming

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giving

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heating

herring

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icing

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knitting

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lapping

laughing

legging

lemming

liking

lining

living

madding

mailing

making

mapping

meeting

mining

mocking

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nagging

napping

outing

pacing

padding

pairing

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paring

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piping

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priming

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rocking

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running

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scaling

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serving

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sheeting

shelling

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shocking

shredding

siding

signing

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sizing

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slapping

sledding

sliding

slitting

smelling

snapping

sparing

spelling

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stocking

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stuffing

stunning

sucking

swearing

sweeting

swelling

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taking

talking

tanning

telling

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training

trucking

twining

veiling

viking

wading

waking

wrecking

waning

wearing

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wiring

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foundling

groundling

sparkling

kindling

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aging

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beijing

blushing

clanging

couching

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etching

festive

fetching

flushing

gushing

hanging

fucked-up

loathing

lodging

merging

paging

purging

judging

mastiff

octave

raging

restive

searching

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stretching

tithing

touching

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drying

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laying

paying

playing

swaying

trying

tying

vying

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flying

crying

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frying

sighing

praying

buying

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lying

prying

arming

posting

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pounding

rifling

roasting

romping

rounding

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sharking

sibling

snarling

sounding

sparling

starling

stripling

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binding

boarding

boasting

bolting

bonding

bouncing

blinding

bounding

building

carling

carping

charming

coasting

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coursing

darling

evening

farming

finding

fixing

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gilding

golfing

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grounding

harping

hoarding

horning

hosting

hounding

kipling

marking

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minding

molting

morning

trifling

mourning

parking

piercing

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toasting

warling

morphing

pointing

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warning

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whistling

whitling

wilding

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backstop

dyestuffs

pinching

awning

barring

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bleeding

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booting

boring

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breeding

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broiling

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choking

chopping

churning

cleaning

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cloaking

clogging

clouding

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coating

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coiling

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cooking

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dipping

doting

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dripping

dropping

during

earning

earring

easing

eking

falling

feeding

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filling

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flogging

flooring

foiling

freaking

freezing

fruiting

galling

gearing

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girding

greening

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healing

hearing

heaving

hilling

hissing

hogging

hopping

housing

hurling

inning

jarring

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jogging

joking

keeling

keeping

kicking

killing

leading

leaking

leaning

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learning

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licking

logging

looking

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loring

meaning

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missing

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moving

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nipping

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nursing

offing

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pudding

quilling

reading

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rigging

roaring

rousing

roving

screaming

screening

scarring

scheming

schilling

seeling

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shooting

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skimming

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sneaking

sneezing

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snoring

soaking

soaring

sobbing

sopping

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spinning

spurling

squeezing

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sterling

sticking

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streaming

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topping

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trilling

trimming

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voiding

voting

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wheeling

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whirling

whopping

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winning

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yearling

yearning

fastballs

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fishing

longing

ringing

singing

smoothing

soothing

springing

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inkling

sheathing

wishing

witching

wringing

breathing

clothing

preaching

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dishing

dyestuff

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stinging

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stitching

switching

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seedling

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golding

scolding

washtub

yielding

fielding

folding

moulding

wielding

mowing

lawing

being

drawing

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seeing

stirring

drinking

fastball

lustful

shrinking

sinking

stinking

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boning

bowling

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closing

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cooling

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grooming

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loading

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chewing

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going

growing

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lowing

owing

postpone

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wistful

screwing

sewing

showing

suing

eastbound

missteps

postpones

nightfall

eightfold

misstep

3 syllable words

abducting

accenting

frustrating

blackmailing

matchmaking

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cackling

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blanketing

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backsliding

handwriting

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excepting

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activists

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enticing

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marketing

scaffolding

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typewriting

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activist

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threatening

everything

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raveling

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groundbreaking

interesting

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anything

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thanksgiving

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battering

astounding

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shoplifting

strengthening

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actively

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covering

surveying

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bloodletting

bloodsucking

bullfighting

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bundling

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life-giving

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networking

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oncoming

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pardoning

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rumbling

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surprising

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highflying

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riveting

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negative

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housekeeping

housewarming

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underling

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according

octopi

positive

rectify

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festivals

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twinkling

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emitting

ensuing

forbidding

glistening

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well-being

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dictaphone

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churchgoing

pocketbook

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testifies

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ironing

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mellowing

motoring

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offering

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yellowing

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soldering

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erecting

regarding

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vegetable

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reactive

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testify

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basketball

justify

pocketbooks

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juxtapose

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establish

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vegetables

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basketballs

face-to-face

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following

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established

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imprinting

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issuing

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october

rightfully

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lowering

agitprop

childbearing

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shipbuilding

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wastebaskets

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vestibule

seagoing

postponements

preceding

freewheeling

improving

beseeching

wastebasket

vestibules

deceitful

good-looking

postponement

4 syllable words

integrating

executing

complicating

devastating

penetrating

occupying

irritating

agonizing

activities

activity

centralizing

deactivate

emphasizing

entertaining

patronizing

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obviating

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advertising

disappointing

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awakening

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domineering

engineering

juxtaposes

merchandising

unassuming

pioneering

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activism

liberating

realizing

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everlasting

underwriting

speechifying

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admonishing

legislating

never-ending

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overrating

overcoming

bicycling

disappearing

diagnosing

corresponding

encouraging

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discouraging

disadvantage

enterprising

oceangoing

undertaking

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waterproofing

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rectifiers

conditioning

inheriting

inhibiting

developing

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underlying

implicating

unrelenting

rectifier

overlying

reentering

equitable

equitably

registering

barbecuing

coexisting

disapproving

enveloping

examining

notwithstanding

embarrassing

interlocking

underpinning

unremitting

disengaging

negatively

positively

overpowering

nonrecurring

overruling

overbearing

overflowing

overlapping

excitable

overarching

overhauling

recidivist

dispiriting

establishments

misadventure

overwhelming

reestablish

establishment

fingerprinting

acidifies

recidivists

disparaging

misadventures

babysitting

establishes

bewildering

fireproofing

negotiable

acidify

petitioning

mountaineering

partitioning

festivity

festivities

vestibular

distinguishing

Words that rhyme with the word activating

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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