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

affect

pelting

resting

trusting

crackling

cresting

suckling

breasting

vesting

belting

buckling

bunting

drafting

duckling

grafting

heckling

hunting

lifting

melting

rafting

shafting

shifting

shuffling

shunting

testing

thrusting

smelting

tackling

backing

batting

bucking

butting

clucking

cracking

cutting

ducking

fucking

getting

jetting

jutting

netting

nutting

putting

sacking

smacking

strutting

puffing

matting

packing

petting

racking

setting

stacking

stuffing

sucking

sweating

tacking

trucking

whacking

wrecking

something

lunching

effects

bulging

offspring

crushing

flushing

gushing

blushing

brushing

effect

judging

nothing

touching

nestling

tempting

dumpling

sparkling

westling

asking

bending

blasting

blending

boxing

casting

inkling

chanting

costing

coupling

fixing

ending

frosting

funding

daunting

sprinkling

faulting

cuddling

fencing

glinting

helping

lending

lasting

listing

jumping

lumping

parting

pending

malting

mounting

ousting

panting

marking

parking

planting

rifling

taunting

salting

shelving

slanting

squinting

starting

tilting

twisting

wrestling

printing

pumping

quilting

spending

thumping

trifling

vaulting

wanting

sharking

sporting

aching

affixed

airing

baiting

baking

banking

bearing

bedding

belling

biting

blaring

blessing

blocking

breaking

budding

caulking

clocking

cocking

coming

cooking

culling

cunning

daring

defects

derring

docking

doubting

dressing

drinking

drugging

drumming

dubbing

dwelling

erring

fehling

fighting

fitting

flaring

fledgling

fleming

flitting

flooding

footing

franking

glaring

grating

grouting

gunning

hamstring

heading

herring

hitting

hugging

humming

hurting

jerking

kenning

kicking

knitting

knocking

laughing

legging

lemming

licking

lighting

liking

looking

loving

making

mocking

mugging

nanking

offing

outing

pairing

paring

pegging

picking

pinching

planking

plating

plugging

plumbing

pouting

pressing

quaking

raking

rocking

rubbing

running

shedding

shelling

shirting

shocking

shredding

shrinking

sighting

sinking

sitting

skirting

slating

sledding

slighting

slitting

slotting

smelling

sniffing

spanking

sparing

spelling

stating

sticking

stinking

stocking

striking

stunning

swearing

swelling

taking

talking

telling

thinking

ticking

tricking

viking

waiting

waking

walking

wearing

webbing

wedding

whiting

working

writing

yachting

yelling

rambling

birthing

dishing

fetching

fishing

pushing

bitching

defect

etching

groundling

handling

kindling

pitching

plaything

foundling

edging

stitching

witching

wishing

stretching

switching

bolting

arming

banding

basting

binding

blinding

boarding

boasting

bonding

bouncing

bounding

building

camping

carling

carping

carving

coasting

coaxing

fainting

charming

farming

darling

finding

angling

coursing

dancing

forcing

golfing

horning

hosting

hounding

grappling

grasping

hoarding

harping

grounding

founding

forming

landing

lamping

kipling

gilding

glancing

grinding

lightning

morphing

mourning

mincing

minding

piercing

pimping

molting

morning

painting

pointing

posting

pouncing

pounding

roasting

romping

rounding

sapling

scalping

scrimping

sibling

snarling

stamping

standing

sounding

sparling

starling

storming

straddling

stripling

tamping

tasting

toasting

warling

warming

warning

warping

wasting

weakling

whistling

whitling

wilding

winding

substance

wincing

offsets

spectral

wellspring

abstain

depicts

dipstick

divests

spectrum

upsets

awning

bagging

beating

bidding

biding

boating

brawling

browning

browsing

calling

calming

barring

billing

booting

boring

briefing

brimming

broking

bruting

chafing

clearing

chilling

chipping

choking

chopping

climbing

clipping

cloaking

clogging

clouding

clowning

coating

codding

colling

creaking

cribbing

crossing

curing

damning

dawning

dicing

digging

dilling

dining

dipping

diving

doting

dripping

dragging

drilling

driving

dropping

falling

fining

during

earring

eating

eking

filing

filling

firing

flagging

fleeting

floating

flogging

flooring

freaking

fruiting

gadding

galling

gassing

gearing

ginning

giving

greeting

having

heating

hiding

hilling

hissing

hogging

hopping

housing

icing

inning

jarring

jogging

joking

lagging

leaking

lining

killing

lapping

living

logging

lopping

loring

madding

mapping

meeting

milling

mining

missing

mooring

muting

nagging

napping

nipping

nodding

padding

panning

passing

peaking

piling

pining

piping

plodding

poking

popping

priming

prowling

pudding

quilling

ribbing

riding

rigging

rising

roaring

roofing

rousing

sagging

scarring

schilling

seating

shearing

sheeting

shilling

shining

shipping

shooting

shoring

signing

shrouding

siding

sizing

skilling

skimming

slapping

sliding

smoking

snapping

sneaking

snoring

soaking

soaring

sobbing

sopping

speaking

spinning

stalling

steering

stopping

strapping

stripping

striving

stroking

suiting

thrilling

sweeting

swimming

tanning

tiding

tipping

topping

tossing

trilling

trimming

tripping

twining

veering

voting

walling

wapping

whipping

whopping

willing

winning

wiring

shoestring

offshoots

banging

couching

dashing

evict

flashing

loathing

divest

catching

clanging

crashing

defaced

depict

hatching

lashing

debased

hanging

latching

lodging

offset

patching

ringing

thrashing

upset

washing

springing

stinging

slouching

longing

matching

scratching

singing

spastic

tithing

wringing

stirring

trying

tying

weighing

vying

saying

sighing

swaying

crying

buying

drawing

drying

dyeing

spectrums

dying

fraying

frying

upstream

laying

lawing

flying

lying

mowing

paying

prying

praying

playing

obstructs

evening

fielding

folding

golding

offshoot

holding

moulding

scolding

seedling

upshot

wielding

yielding

arching

branching

earthling

forging

launching

capstone

farthing

marching

spectre

dovecotes

scorching

obstruct

ailing

bleeping

beading

beaming

blazing

bleeding

blooming

boiling

bolling

boning

booming

boozing

bowling

bracing

braiding

braving

breeding

crooning

easing

facing

fading

failing

feeding

feeling

flaming

foaming

foiling

framing

freezing

fuming

gaming

girding

glazing

gloaming

grading

grayling

grieving

grazing

greening

grooming

grouping

healing

pacing

paving

phasing

phrasing

pleading

pleasing

poling

polling

pooling

pruning

racing

railing

raising

raving

reading

sperling

spurling

squeezing

staving

stealing

sterling

stooping

stowing

straining

brooding

caning

casing

ceiling

chirping

broiling

burning

burping

chasing

churning

cleaning

closing

coiling

combing

cooling

coping

craving

creeping

curling

dealing

draining

dueling

earning

feigning

hearing

heaving

holing

homing

hurling

jailing

jeering

keeling

keeping

lading

leading

leaning

leaping

learning

leasing

loading

loaning

looming

looping

losing

mailing

meaning

moving

musing

nosing

nursing

oozing

rolling

roving

ruling

sailing

saving

scaling

scheming

schooling

scraping

screaming

screening

seeling

seeming

seizing

serving

shading

shaving

sleeping

sloping

sneezing

streaming

sweeping

swooning

tailing

teaming

teeming

trailing

tubing

tooling

tracing

trading

training

tuning

turning

waning

hopscotch

veiling

voiding

wading

weaving

weeding

weeping

whaling

wheeling

whirling

whooping

wording

yearling

yearning

abstracts

abstruse

aging

bathing

beijing

bleaching

breathing

breeching

clothing

coaching

dovecote

merging

paging

preaching

purging

raging

searching

sheathing

smoothing

soothing

staging

substrate

teaching

teething

upstart

being

blowing

blueing

bluing

bowing

brewing

chewing

cooing

crowing

doing

flowing

glowing

screwing

going

growing

knowing

lowing

owing

peeing

suing

seeing

sewing

showing

throwing

substrates

abstract

upstarts

subsides

beefsteak

bobcats

ripostes

websters

diffused

hipsters

lobsters

bobcat

hipster

typist

webster

lobster

quipster

subside

tipster

upside

scapegoats

sweepstake

typists

sweepstakes

robust

scapegoat

spigots

space-time

spigot

capstan

riposte

eavesdrop

3 syllable words

abducting

accenting

affections

consulting

contacting

exacting

excepting

investing

respecting

tormenting

unbending

bloodsucking

commanding

commuting

defection

descending

outfitting

resisting

trumpeting

typesetting

unfailing

unwitting

amazing

bubbling

alluring

arresting

bustling

colouring

concurring

constricting

deafening

diverting

doubling

emitting

governing

factoring

juggling

provoking

lawmaking

muscling

polluting

stiffening

traversing

visiting

matchmaking

refreshing

contracting

coloring

covering

distracting

echoing

offering

stuttering

completing

conforming

machining

confounding

confusing

maturing

convincing

effectors

defections

assuring

dissembling

dumbfounding

existing

frustrating

adjoining

impending

perplexing

unsparing

unflinching

alarming

amusing

abounding

approving

aspiring

mothering

backbiting

bullfighting

forthcoming

bumbling

bundling

complying

composing

conceding

concerning

confiding

conserving

consoling

consuming

defusing

departing

despairing

good-looking

infighting

inserting

inviting

lactating

life-giving

mistaking

mumbling

observing

patrolling

relapsing

rumbling

underling

effector

tumbling

pronouncing

typewriting

unfeeling

unwilling

uprising

ballooning

adoring

agreeing

converging

aligning

conveying

delighting

annealing

appalling

beginning

deserving

detailing

locating

ticketing

thundering

lumbering

discerning

assuming

pilfering

repeating

bungling

reducing

reversing

blundering

entering

reckoning

blustering

prevailing

proceeding

centering

imprinting

divining

appealing

highflying

undying

carjacking

abiding

spaghetti

opposing

undoing

absorbing

annoying

anything

battering

bettering

bickering

broadcasting

canoeing

caressing

chattering

childbearing

complaining

compounding

conquering

dairying

depicted

diapering

distressing

diverging

doddering

exhausting

expelling

finishing

flattering

forecasting

glimmering

hairdressing

handwriting

hardworking

importing

ironing

jockeying

lettering

mellowing

misspelling

narrowing

obstructive

peppering

pickering

powdering

rejoicing

scattering

shimmering

shipbuilding

shoplifting

smattering

soldering

tinkering

unyielding

varying

watering

yellowing

flowering

accusing

admiring

imposing

invading

feathering

kidnapping

withering

according

foreboding

forwarding

housekeeping

housewarming

misleading

glowering

misgiving

recording

regarding

revolting

gathering

cowering

souring

measuring

issuing

substantive

suffocate

blackmailing

campaigning

degrading

disguising

dissolving

butchering

disarming

depiction

downsizing

emptying

towering

equating

badgering

enticing

erupting

eviction

weathering

divestment

exciting

succeeding

groundbreaking

abstention

heartbreaking

transporting

landscaping

laundering

tempering

thickening

whispering

designing

dividing

sickening

believing

crusading

pervading

beholding

blistering

plastering

pondering

presiding

profiling

quickening

wandering

vomiting

relieving

rendering

bushwhacking

obliging

becoming

well-being

challenging

seducing

scavenging

retiring

beguiling

ongoing

riveting

ordering

reviving

ensuing

approaching

everything

faltering

backsliding

abstracted

depictions

astounding

disgusting

enlisting

evictions

imploring

improving

enclosing

exulting

increasing

engraving

divestments

engrossing

harvesting

inspiring

painstaking

installing

insulting

abstentions

billowing

carrying

copying

dialing

favoring

flavoring

laboring

obstruction

pitying

tapering

toweling

tailoring

conjuring

deficits

bullying

following

murmuring

neighboring

neutering

papering

surveying

lingering

motoring

shadowing

winnowing

vanishing

belonging

besieging

damaging

fingering

polishing

ravishing

wrongdoing

enchanting

wagering

bookkeeping

crocheting

carpeting

decreasing

deposit

nourishing

declining

dressmaking

easterling

endearing

exceeding

marketing

nerve-racking

networking

persisting

railroading

reclining

scaffolding

engaging

unthinking

blanketing

layering

lowering

obstructions

warehousing

interesting

blossoming

cackling

baffling

battening

bottling

channeling

cradling

thanksgiving

crippling

cycling

deadening

galloping

glistening

outgoing

raveling

leveling

lightening

listening

modeling

mottling

piddling

quarreling

freewheeling

happening

leavening

lessening

maddening

meddling

opening

paneling

peddling

promising

reasoning

drizzling

fastening

middling

outlying

preceding

scribbling

softening

surrounding

sweetening

tabling

whitening

landholding

settling

sizzling

seasoning

threatening

enduring

expiring

apostate

arranging

churchgoing

cushioning

deposits

lopsided

subacute

subsidies

sojourning

spectrograph

rhapsodic

substances

soldiering

spectacle

seagoing

journeying

carousing

arriving

dampening

darkening

dwindling

gambling

gardening

hardening

incoming

oncoming

counseling

fondling

outpouring

exploring

languishing

parceling

scrambling

expanding

pardoning

revolving

shortening

sleepwalking

trembling

substitute

tinkling

twinkling

subsidy

upside-down

deficit

obstacle

marshaling

spectacles

spectator

forbidding

forgiving

opining

shortcoming

strengthening

surpassing

surviving

opposites

spectators

substitutes

subsidize

navigates

obstacles

outstanding

surprising

substantial

brainwashing

baby-sit

heavyset

opposite

tapestries

navigate

eavesdropping

apostles

beseeching

devastate

lobbyists

robustly

tapestry

sophistry

obfuscate

obstinate

apostle

epistle

abstinence

abstinent

episodes

heavyweights

episode

heavyweight

lobbyist

oboist

revisit

rhapsody

revisits

rhapsodize

abstraction

abstractions

4 syllable words

affectively

awakening

liberating

moderating

operating

unrelenting

intersecting

effectively

unbecoming

underwriting

affectation

affectionate

unremitting

inheriting

irritating

nonrecurring

hesitating

underlying

annotating

dominating

oscillating

never-ending

bicycling

laminating

mitigating

suffocation

delegating

fascinating

detonating

vacillating

unassuming

developing

agitating

condescending

pioneering

parachuting

implicating

activating

aggravating

barbecuing

captivating

circulating

coexisting

devastating

disappointing

dispiriting

embarrassing

enveloping

palpitating

penetrating

unbelieving

underpinning

undertaking

conditioning

fluctuating

undulating

disparaging

understanding

obviating

overrating

persevering

disappearing

diagnosing

divestiture

unavailing

domineering

complicating

capacitance

disconcerting

integrating

fingerprinting

calculating

overlying

notifying

realizing

separating

edifying

gratifying

disapproving

interlocking

interviewing

overwhelming

capacities

examining

advertising

divestitures

speechifying

merchandising

sophisticates

astonishing

engineering

substituted

distributing

appetizing

overbearing

overlapping

overpowering

overruling

supposition

revocation

avocation

inquiring

effectuate

agonizing

executing

capacity

encompassing

corresponding

registering

devastated

encouraging

obstetrical

reentering

oceangoing

substantively

revocations

suppositions

maximizing

everlasting

entertaining

emphasizing

denigrating

notwithstanding

patronizing

capacitors

disengaging

legislating

ubiquity

bewildering

navigation

occupying

officiates

overflowing

centralizing

enterprising

substitution

avocado

capacitor

depositor

energizing

discouraging

sophisticate

overarching

petitioning

obstructionist

mountaineering

admonishing

avocados

depositors

inhibiting

navigators

obsidian

partitioning

fireproofing

obfuscation

obstructionists

substitutions

disabling

overcoming

babysitting

overhauling

apostolic

rhapsodizes

spectrometer

spectacular

navigator

devastation

encircling

enlightening

waterproofing

officiate

spectroscopy

spectrometry

distinguishing

evocative

topsy-turvy

deposition

opposition

substantially

reposition

substantiate

disheartening

obstinacy

subsidizes

depositions

obstetrician

baby-sitter

substantiates

oppositions

obstetricians

baby-sitters

obesity

opacity

evacuate

apostrophe

apostrophes

evocation

7 syllable words

Words that rhyme with the word affecting

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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.


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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

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

  • End rhymes: rhyming of the final word of a line
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  • Slant rhymes: near rhymes
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Different Types of Rhymes
  • Mascline rhymes: have a stressed syllable
  • Feminine rhymes: have a stressless syllable.

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

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